On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 01:09:21AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> * A result of a pipe can't be retrieved (and that's why the FAQ
> recommends to use procmail for such things).
...you mean that if you pipe a message through some external program
you can't then feed the output of that program back into exim? It
initially appears so, but it's straightforward to write a shellscript
wrapper for the external program that adds a custom header (to avoid
loops) and feeds the output of the external program back in using
exim -bm. Useful if you want to avoid having to learn
Sanskrit^Wprocmail.
For example, the following is what I use to strip the advertising from
Yahoo Groups mailing list traffic:
------------/home/pigeon/.forward:
# Exim filter
if $header_to: contains "yahoogroups.com" and $header_X-Footer-Stripped: does not contain "yes"
then
pipe "/home/pigeon/bin/yahoo.mail.footer.strip"
save "/home/pigeon/mail/debug/yahoo.strip.log"
seen finish
endif
------------/home/pigeon/bin/yahoo.mail.footer.strip:
#!/bin/sh
# /bin/sed -e '/---- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ----/,$d' | /usr/sbin/exim -bm pigeon
LOGFILE="/home/pigeon/mail/debug/yahoo.strip.log"
SCRIPTFILE="/home/pigeon/bin/yahoo.mail.footer.strip.edscript"
TMPFILE=`mktemp -t footerstrip.$$.XXXXXXXXXX`
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
(echo -n 'Error creating TMPFILE at '; 822-date) >> $LOGFILE
cat | /usr/sbin/exim -bm pigeon
exit 0
fi
cat > $TMPFILE
cat $SCRIPTFILE | ed $TMPFILE > /dev/null 2>/dev/null
cat $TMPFILE | /usr/sbin/exim -bm pigeon
rm -f $TMPFILE
------------/home/pigeon/bin/yahoo.mail.footer.strip:
$
?^--* Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --*~?
.,/-----------------------/d
1
/^$/
i
X-Footer-Stripped: yes
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