William Voyek wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> First of all I'm not a programmer and am completely new perl so please
> be gentle with me. My problem is that I'm trying to use the script
> below to insert some text into multiple files. The files are control
> files for qmail, the MTA we use. The text that I want to insert will
> call a virus scanner to scan messages before they are delivered to a
> users mailbox. The default text to be inserted is:
>
>> /usr/local/bin/odeiavir
>
> There is a problem with this text though. With the qmail setup I have
> it doesn't work completely. The message is scanned and if a virus is
> found it's deleted but the notification message that's supposed to be
> sent to the user is never delivered because the email address gets
> mangled in the process. But, there is a fix for this. I simply need
> to insert a switch (-r [EMAIL PROTECTED]) at the end of the call to the virus
> scanner. So, the text I need inserted is:
>
>> /usr/local/bin/odeiavir -r [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Try adding \ as [EMAIL PROTECTED] This escapes those characters otherwise it
tries to expand $EXT and possibly @$HOST. With the escaping it will write that whole
line to the file as is.
Wags ;)
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