Mail Management With Procmail

Just wanted to let you know ... I've been procrastinating for ages on setting up procmail because I didn't feel like reading the manpage. I have to say that this little tutorial we well written, covered the basics, and had pointers for all of the "next steps".

Good job!

Sean

testing autoresponse i get error command not found for cat


see log


From rcory@acedsl.com Sat Jan 18 16:04:50 2003
Folder: (/usr/bin/formail -r ; cat possible_spam.txt) | /usr/sbin/se 1341
/bin/bash: cat: command not found

see recipe

:0
* ^From:.*rcory@acedsl.com
| (/usr/bin/formail -r ; cat possible_spam.txt) | /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi
| -t

Try specifying the full path to cat, like so:
:0 ^From:.rcory@acedsl.com | (/usr/bin/formail -r ; /bin/cat possible_spam.txt) | /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi | -t

no luck different error tried path for mail_msg as well
From rroman@acedsl.com Tue Jan 21 21:28:53 2003
Subject: test procmail
Folder: (/usr/bin/formail -r ; /bin/cat possible_spam.txt) | 1353
/bin/bash: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file

Mail Management With Procmail

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