Thanks for all the great info.
mouss wrote:
[reposting to list, even if you posted other messages after this]
Vadtec a écrit :
you have an error in your perl script.
Maybe.
debug the script. run it manually.
I had already ran the script manually to verify it worked.
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: cannot append message to file
/path/to/my/perl/script/parse.pl: cannot open file:
Permission denied
why would you append a message to a perl script?
Because Perl has the nifty ability to receive from stdin so that I can
parse the e-mail to extract data from it. I don't so much care about the
e-mail it self.
That's not how I understand it. I understand it like this: the message
is being appended to (added to the end of) the file /path/.../parse.pl,
not being passed to stding after executing the script. To be clear, this
is like:
# cat message.eml >> /path/.../parse.pl
after a message is appended, the script is invalid (syntax errors). and
after more and more messages are appended, the script becomes larger and
larger. do you understand what I mean?
parse: |perl /path/to/my/script/parse.pl
As Wietse said, quote the command:
parse: "|perl /path/to/..../parse.pl"
and instead of running perl like this, add "#!/usr/bin/perl" (adjust the
path if perl is somewhere else) at the beginning of the script, and make
the script executable. This way you can simply do
parse: "|/path/.../parse.pl"
it is a good security practice to always use absolute paths
(/usr/bin/perl instead of perl).
I rarely use relative paths. Once to often I've seen known binaries get
messed with.
As for the fix, the only thing I didn't do was quote the command, which
I have since done.
Finally, since the aliases file belongs to root, the script is executed
as "nobody", which explains the permission problems.
to run the script as a user "foo", put it in a separate file, say
foo_aliases and use
alias_maps =
hash:/etc/.../aliases
hash:/etc/postfix/foo_aliases
then chown foo_aliases to "foo".
To cure this, I set default_privs to "mail" and chowned the script and
dir accordingly. I'm glad to say it worked. I'll also look into using
the alias_maps method.
An alternative is to use a transport in master.cf instead of using
alias_maps.
This is above me at this point, but I will look into this as well.
Vadtec
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