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List:       procmail
Subject:    Re: vacation messaging with procmailrc
From:       guenther+procmail () gac ! edu
Date:       2000-10-30 21:50:59
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Jonathan Desrochers <jvd@clickcom.com> writes:
>I have run into a weird situation and I am hoping someone out there can
>help.  I am running the following .procmailrc in a users home directory:
...
>:0 Whc: vacation$LOCKEXT
...
>| formail -rD 8192 vacation.cache
>
>:0 ehc
>| (formail -rI"Precedence: junk" \
>           -A"X-Loop: $LOGNAME@$HOST" \
>        ; \
>        cat $HOME/reply \
>  ) | $SENDMAIL $SENDMAILFLAGS -t
>
>and when I send a test message to the account, the following log is
>generated (I have replaced the username with "USER":
...
>procmail: Locking "vacation.lock"
>procmail: Executing "formail,-rD,8192,vacation.cache"
>procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=formail -rD 8192 vacation.cache"
>procmail: Unlocking "vacation.lock"
>procmail: Bypassed locking "/var/mail/USER.lock"
>procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/mail/USER"
...
>after this is generated, the senders email address is added to the
>vacation.cache file (I started with the file empty), however no reply is
>sent to the sender.

Hmm, you're sure the file was empty before?  I ask because the formail
-D command returned success, which it should only do when it finds the
address in the cache file.  Either a) the address was already in the
vacation.cache file, or b) your formail command is broken.


Philip Guenther

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