>The "e" flag to procmail makes it only execute the formail rule if the
>sanitizer returns a non-zero exit code. Unfortunately, I haven't quite
>figured out how to access the code itself from within procmail. Any tips
>would be very welcome.
>
Bjarni
Thanks for the answers to my questions.
Perhaps the part below is helpful to you.
Quoting from Jari Aalto's Procmail tips page at
http://www.procmail.org/jari/pm-tips.txt
9.8 Passing values from an external program
External programs cannot set procmail variables directly. Programs
must write the values to external files and then read the values
from these files. Capturing only one value is easy:
var = `command` # capture STDOUT
But if a program modifies the body and exports some status
information it is trickier. We assume here that the script is
controlled by you and that you have added the switch
--export-status option which causes the program to print
information to a separate file.
LOCKFILE = $HOME/.run$LOCKEXT # protect external file writing
valueFile = $HOME/tmp/values
# modify body, and export status values to external file: one
# value in every line
#
# VALUE1
# VALUE2
# VALUE3
:0 fb
| $NICE script.pl --export-status $valueFile
values = `cat $valueFile`
# Derive values from each line
:0 # line 1
*$ values ?? ^^\/[^$NL]+
{
var1 = $MATCH
}
:0 # line 2
*$ values ?? ^^.*$\/[^$NL]+
{
var2 = $MATCH
}
:0 # line 3
*$ values ?? ^^.*$.*$\/[^$NL]+
{
var3 = $MATCH
}
LOCKFILE # Release lock
[richard] Alternatively write valueFile from your rc or external
program with lines like
PARAM1="value for param 1"
PARAM2="value for param 2"
PARAM3="value for param 3"
and read it with
INCLUDERC $valueFile
Now there is no need to worry about synchronizing the read with the
lines, or about adding new parameters, since each is labeled in
valueFile.
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