On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 07:52:24AM +0200, BASSAGET Cédric wrote:
> Hello
> I'm using fetchamil / procmail to fetch mails from an POP server and parse
> it then launch a script or system call :
>
>
> # cat .fetchmailrc
> set logfile fetchmail.log
> poll imaps.dom.tld proto POP3
> user "user@dom.tld" pass "xxxxxx" preconnect "date >> ~/fetchmail.log"
> ssl
> fetchall
> keep
> no rewrite
> mda "/usr/bin/procmail ~/.procmailrc";
>
> # cat .procmailrc
> LOGFILE=procmail.log
> VERBOSE=yes
> :0
> * ^Message-ID: \/.*
> #| /usr/bin/curl http://mail.dom.tld/script.php?messageid=$MATCH
> | echo "whoami" > test.txt
>
>
> This work fine when calling fetchamil as root with "fetchamil -f
> .fetchmailrc". But when calling fetchmail from a dedicated user, the
> external script in procmail is not called. It's written in the logfile that
> :
>
> procmail: [25332] Mon Jun 19 16:20:28 2023
> procmail: Assigning "MATCH="
> procmail: Matched "<9088600d-446a-96b4-4043-29ecd0d5a557@dom.tld>"
> procmail: Match on "^Message-ID: \/.*"
> procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER= echo "whoami" > test.txt"
> Subject: test
> Folder: echo "whoami" > test.txt
> 1824
> procmail: Executing " echo "whoami" > test.txt"
>
> but nothung happens.
> Am I missing something ?
> Regards
> Cédric
Are you sure that procmail is running the command in a shell?
Could it be trying to execute a program named 'echo'.
You might try creating a shell script you can call.
--
Joel Roth