forwarding file.. where is it??

schmack1331 · 07-12-2007, 10:48 AM

where can i alter my forwarding in slackware 11??
thanks

macemoneta · 07-12-2007, 11:45 AM

What kind of forwarding are you interested in? Email forwarding? Network port forwarding? Web forwarding (redirection)?

TefoZi · 07-13-2007, 06:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by macemoneta

What kind of forwarding are you interested in? Email forwarding? Network port forwarding? Web forwarding (redirection)?

1. Where is .forward file in debian?
2. I want to implement script which will parse and get data from email message. When i'm getting email message i want to send this message to my script as parameter. Can i do this through .forward file?

| /home/username/my_script.pl

or something like this?

macemoneta · 07-13-2007, 06:51 PM

The .forward file is created in your home directory. Make sure the permissions are 600. Yes, you can include a pipe and script to process the email.

TefoZi · 07-14-2007, 07:04 PM

I'm trying pipe my mail messages to another program and than parse.
I've created .forward file in my home directory, set permissions 600 and my file looks like:

Code:

|/home/username/process_messages.pl

/home/username/process_messages.pl - this file exist and has executable permissions

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

open(EMAIL, ">> emails.dat");
while(<STDIN>) {
    print(EMAIL $_);
}
close(EMAIL);

What's wrong? Why my messages are not forwarding?

Thanks!

macemoneta · 07-14-2007, 08:24 PM

Take a look at /var/log/maillog for errors.

TefoZi · 07-16-2007, 02:51 PM

It was my bad, I've made a mistake in line:

Code:

open(EMAIL, ">> emails.dat");

should be

Code:

open(EMAIL, "> emails.dat");

How it works for me now:
1. Create .forward file in home directory with permissions 600:

Code:

|/home/<username>/process_messages.pl, /home/<username>/mail/all.messages, "|/usr/bin/procmail -t #bplecs"

2. Create .procmailrc file in home directory with permissions 600:

Code:

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail      #you'd better make sure it exists
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from   #recommended

:0c:
$HOME/mail/backup.messages

3. Create process_messages.pl file to process messages:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

open(EMAIL, "> /home/<username>/mail/latest.messages");
while(<>) {
    print(EMAIL $_);
}
close(EMAIL);

4. Create mail directory and files:
$HOME/mail/
- all.messages
- backup.messages
- latest.messages