Procmail/Perl email integration

[virtual_odin]

My objective is to allow a list of people (email addresses) to send email from their usual email client, such that the server sends it on to another list of email addresses automatically. CWH build doesn't support the imap functions, so my first idea of a cron job on the mailbox using PHP's imap_open() etc won't work.

 

The help desk advise that I could, at my own risk, use the Procmail filters to pipe mail to a script on the machine which would handle the email as it enters the system. However I am familiar with neither Perl nor Procmail. I have loaded Dada mail to help with this, but its "send from email" feature does not want to work. I have a call in to them. I have found .procmailrc and persuaded it to run a script that I have found.

 

.procmail looks like this:

INCLUDERC=/etc/ALAquota/overquotarc
VERBOSE=on
RECIP=$1
MAILDIR=$HOME/mydomain-mail
LOGFILE=$HOME/mail.log
INCLUDERC=$HOME/dada.rc
INCLUDERC=.procmailrc

and the file dada.rc looks like this:

:0
* $RECIP ?? ^^list1@mydomain.com
{
:0
| /home/mydomain/www/cgi-bin/dada/plugins/dada_bridge.pl
}
## where list1 is the address for the distribution list

The log I get is:

procmail: Assigning "INCLUDERC=/home/myroot/dada.rc"

procmail: Match on "^^list1@mydomain.com"

procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/home/myroot/www/cgi-bin/dada/plugins/dada_bridge.pl"

procmail: Executing "/home/myroot/www/cgi-bin/dada/plugins/dada_bridge.pl"

procmail: Notified comsat: "myroot@:/home/myroot/www/cgi-bin/dada/plugins/dada_bridge.pl"

From someone@hotmail.co.uk Thu Feb 22 10:41:05 2007

Subject: test

Folder: /home/myroot/www/cgi-bin/dada/plugins/dada_bridge.pl 1258

I am pretty sure something needs setting in mydomain.com/cgi-bin/dada/plugins/dada_bridge.pl or one of its supporting files, but when I try to load it I get a server (500) error.

 

So my question is one of two. Either has anyone been here and fixed it? If so, how please?. Or has anyone another solution to suggest. As always grateful for any advice.

 

Tim

[effigy]

What errors do you see in your web server's (Apache) logs?

[virtual_odin]

If I am pulling out the right log, I get

xx.xx.xxx.x - - [28/Feb/2007:01:24:04 -0500] "GET /cgi-bin/dada/plugins/dada_bridge.pl HTTP/1.1" 500 539 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2"

Is that the log you mean?

 

[effigy]

I should have clarified. That's the access log; you want the error log. Look in your configuration for the ErrorLog directive to see where it's located.