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patman
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Joined: 11 May 2003
Posts: 32
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 Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 2:46 am Post subject: mail command question |
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Folks -
I have an auto-responder in my procmail config. It runs a script and pipes the output through the following command:
$FROM is a variable that's known to work.
Here's the issues. When I run the above mail command, the message seems to get stuck in the outgoing queue. I get the following response from 'mailq'(sanitized) -
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-Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
1FCE8DFA5C 330 Wed Mar 17 21:34:47 patman@my.server
(connect to mail2.recipient.com[216.xx.xx.xx]: No route to host)
patman@other.server
-- 0 Kbytes in 1 Request.
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If I send mail with my usual mail program, pine, it works fine. Receiving mail works fine.
I'm using postfix 2.0.19, stock from Portage. Does anyone have any clue what might be happening here? |
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Cocker68
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Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Posts: 227
Location: Germany
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| Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 11:14 am Post subject: |
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*eh* the problem is written there in plain text: | Quote: | | connect to mail2.recipient.com[216.xx.xx.xx]: No route to host |
Try using the commands | Code: | formail -r
sendmail -t |
instead. formail -r creates a valid reply, and sendmail -t searches for recipients in the mail-header.
My procmail-recipe to generate an autoreply is | Code: | # autoreply
:0 c: /var/lock/autoreply
* !^X-Loop: autoreply
* ^Subject: *(echo request|echo-request|echorequest|auto reply|auto-reply|autoreply) *$
| ( cat - > /tmp/autoreply; \
cat /tmp/autoreply | formail -r -I"Precedence: junk" -A "X-Loop: autoreply" ; \
echo "You requested an echo of your e-mail"; \
echo -e "This is, what I received:\n"; \
echo -e "\n---echo-reply begin-----------------------------------------------------"; \
cat /tmp/autoreply; \
rm -f /tmp/autoreply; \
echo "---echo-reply end-------------------------------------------------------" ) | $SENDMAIL -t |
- Cocker :wq |
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