I have procmail parsing the subject line of incoming e-mail and depositing individual files in a folder that match the procmail recipe. I want to have that recipe spawn a perl script to parse the file to pull out specific information. I've googled this and found many examples but none of them work. One question everyone asks "Is the perl script is flagged executable"? Yes.

Here's the procmail recipe:

:0
* ^Subject: Cron <root@frontier> cd /home/rowan;./tunnelsetup.sh
{
LOGFILE=$HOME/charge.log
:0
charges/
| /home/rowan/billing.pl

:0
default

}

When it finds a matching inbound message it logs it correctly in the charge.log file, writes the message in charges/new/xxx but skips the /home/rowan/billing.pl script.

Anyone know why?

AFAIK this isn't a valid subject. Export the message in plain text and you'll see there's actually two headers that make up this line.


Procmail has debug flags you can set to see how a message gets processed in detail. Try that. If you can't make head nor tail of it post it here.

I didn't realize you could only have one action for each :0.
You can have multiple recipes within a branch.
I write the inbound e-mail to a temp file with the first piece of the evaluation, then the next recipe parses the temporary file.

:0
* ^Subject: Cron <root@frontier> cd /home/rowan/;./tunnelsetup.sh
{
VERBOSE=yes
TMPFILE=tmp$$

:0 ac:
$TMPFILE

:0 ah
| (/usr/bin/psibillingparm.pl $TMPFILE; echo "Tempfile was $TMPFILE";rm -f $TMPFILE)

}