Hello everyone,

I followed this tutorial to use altermime + script to add a disclaimer to outgoing mails:

https://www.howtoforge.com/add-autom...ostfix-fedora8

When I send a mail, no disclaimer is added.

When I run the script with bash -x to debug, I see it stops on the cat line - it creates the folder but cannot write to it so it aborts.

I did all the installations as root and both root and user filter have full permissions to all folders.

Does anyone know what could be wrong?

Perhaps I should run the script as user filter instead of root?

I tried changing almost all the parameters but nothing works. I downloaded the RPM from a centos repository but it is being used in a RedHat server.

Many thanks in advance!

It's not what you're looking for, but I've personally found adding footers through the email 'client' to be a more easily implemented solution

Ken

Hi, can you elaborate? Not sure I understood your suggestion. Thanks!

The email client (Thunderbird, KMail, Outlook, OE, etc) you (or your users) use to send emails can be configured to attach "footers" to messages.

You did this?
Looks like the script should be owned by filter, not root.

I see nothing in that script that creates a "folder" -- it only wants to create a file in INSPECT_DIR (/var/spool/filter)

Thank you Sean, I did run the chown command but I will double check.

Regarding the folders, I know it doesn't say so in the script, but in actuality it creates a folder .tmp under /var/spool/filter - I see that when I run the script with bash -x - I see that it stops at the cat line. Then I see a folder number.tmp was created and looks like it is trying to write something.

Let's say the owner is indeed filter - but I am logged in as root - would the script function ok or do I need to log in as filter?

Did you try the script yourself? Did it work for you?

Many thanks!

No, I haven't tried the script...I do what bitfuzzy suggested and use the email client to add footers. I don't see the need to complicate my email server setup.

I'd think you'd need to log in as the email user to send an email...no?

This is what I see when I run with bash -x and this in.5250 is the file that is created when it gets stuck on the cat command, only each time you run it you get a different number for the in. file. Ideas?