piping to a filter

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2 total messages Started by John Price-Wilkin Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:41

#1355

Author: John Price-Wilkin
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:41

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I'm trying to have mail with a specified subject piped through a filter  
that removes mail headers, names the file the contents of the subject  
line, and puts the message in a directory based on month and date.  I've  
written the filter in perl (iau-er) and tested it extensively. I've got a  
working .maildelivery, which I've been able to use to save messages  
matching the criteria to specified directories (but not going through the  
filter).  When I try to put everything together, the mail disappears  
mysteriously.  The .maildelivery file looks like this:

Subject FOO | A "/home/jpw/bin/iau-er"
default - > ? /usr/spool/mail/jpw

If I do an slocal -verbose, I get:

 slocal -user $USER -verbose < foo-message
        delivering to pipe "/home/jpw/bin/iau-er", wins.

I also did a debug, and while I don't really know how to read its  
responses, nothing looked striking.

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?  I'm afraid it's awfully  
simple-minded, but I'm stumped.  Incidentally, I'm using MH 6.7 "UCI  
Version" on the NeXT.

John Price-Wilkin
jpw@Virginia.EDU
jpw@sansfoy.lib.virginia.edu (NeXTMail)

Re: piping to a filter (one more piece of info)

#1358

Author: John Price-Wilkin
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:36

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In article <1993Jan22.144107.27409@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>  
jpw@sansfoy.lib.virginia.edu (John Price-Wilkin) writes:
> I'm trying to have mail with a specified subject piped through a filter  
[text ommitted]
> Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?  I'm afraid it's awfully  
> simple-minded, but I'm stumped.  Incidentally, I'm using MH 6.7 "UCI  
> Version" on the NeXT.
> 


A followup.  Several of my previously sent messages came back, and they  
had the perhaps useful piece of information:

slocal: missing argument to -user
554 "| /usr/local/mh/lib/slocal -user $USER"... 554 unknown mailer error 1

I've since tried with a change to the .forward substituting my login id  
for $USER, but this doesn't seem to help either.

John Price-Wilkin
jpw@Virginia.EDU
jpw@sansfoy.lib.virginia.edu (NeXTMail)

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