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gheorghiua · #1 (**permalink**) 17-06-2009, 02:08 AM

I have a macro code that selects a particular message and saves the attachment file to a directory, and exits.
I created a bash script which calls mutt as follows:

Code:

mutt -e 'push "i"''
if [ -s cdrs.csv ]; then
mv cdrs.csv vitcd.csv
chmod 755 vitcd.csv

When executed from the command line it saves the attachment of the selected mail as cdrs.csv with no problems
However, when this script is executed from cron or command line it gives the following errors:

Code:

No recipients were specified.
Vitelity raw file could not be generated!"

Tried everything to no avail. Macro code in .muttrc is as follows:

Code:

 macro index i "<l ~d<1d,l ~s CDR^M<enter>v<next-entry><next-entry>s<enter><exit><exit><exit>"

Any tips would be greatly appreciated as this job cannot be scheduled to run by itself, and it needs manual intervention for this step.
Thanks so much

nixcraft · #2 (**permalink**) 17-06-2009, 03:15 AM

Are you running this from your own crontab or from root users crontab?

gheorghiua · #3 (**permalink**) 17-06-2009, 03:44 AM

I am running my own crontab as there are no other jobs on that machine (CentOS 5.2)

nixcraft · #4 (**permalink**) 17-06-2009, 05:08 AM

Few quick things try using full path to mutt (/usr/bin/mutt)

Export the variables (cron will not export all these variables):

EMAIL The user’s e-mail address.
MAIL Full path of the user’s spool mailbox.
MAILDIR Full path of the user’s spool mailbox. Commonly used when the spool mailbox is a maildir folder.

For e.g.

Code:

export MAIL=/var/spool/mail/vivek

Try the -f mailbox option to mutt which specify which mailbox to load:

PHP Code:


			
 mutt -f /var/spool/mail/vivek -e 'push "i"''

When you run crontab -u user -e make sure crontab has default shell and MAILTO defined:

Code:

 # use /bin/bash to run commands
SHELL=/bin/bash
# mail any output to vivek
MAILTO=vivek

gheorghiua · #5 (**permalink**) 17-06-2009, 10:27 AM

I tried suggestions 2. Suggestion 3 was already applied on crontab. As far as suggestion 1 it seems cron already finds the var/spool/mail/alice, and tested again with the same results. Forgot to mention, I have fetchmail that is transferring the e-mail from my gmail account. The settings being in the fetchmailrc. What I have noticed though, is that after I run the first time around, with failure, and if I open the terminal I am alerted that new mail is waiting in /var/spool/mail/alice. After that if I run the script again with fetchmail and mutt it successfully saves the desired attachment and completes the rest of the steps. My question would be now how can I supress this message by a command which will place the e-mail to the mbox which is on my home directory.
Thank you again so much for all the suggestions.

nixcraft · #6 (**permalink**) 17-06-2009, 07:20 PM

So fetchmail download email from gmail pop3 server and mutt moves attachments to folders? Try mda command in $HOME/.fetchmailrc

Code:

poll pop3.gmail.server
protocol pop3 
user 'you@gmail.com' 
password 'your-gmail-password' 
mda '/home/you/path/to/mutt.bash.script.sh'

Try above, if that failed the only real and valid solution is to use procmail to move the attachments. I've done fetchmail and procmail combo to move attachments.

gheorghiua · #7 (**permalink**) 17-06-2009, 11:24 PM

I tried adding the mda on the .fetchmailrc and re-ran the script with the following result:

Code:

cat cdrtest.log
we move to cdrf and run fetchmail
2 messages for alice@ringplus.net at pop.gmail.com (70785 octets).
reading message alice@ringplus.net@pop.gmail.com:1 of 2 (8256 octets)........we move to cdrf and run fetchmail
fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at 25170.
we now run the mutty
Wed Jun 17 13:45:06 EDT 2009
No recipients were specified.
No recipients were specified.
Vitelity raw file could not be generated!
flushed
reading message alice@ringplus.net@pop.gmail.com:2 of 2 (62529 octets).

I tried b4 with procmail but wasn't sure how it works. Will continue to approace this idea. Any tips will be appreciated.

nixcraft · #8 (**permalink**) 18-06-2009, 10:30 PM

Yes, you can use something as follows which redirect common virus attachments including zipped versions using procmail.

Code:

    :0 B
    * name=.*(document|readme|doc|text|file|data|test|message|body)\.(vbs\"|wsf\"|vbe\"|wsh\"|hta\"|scr\"|pif\"|exe\"|shs\"|bat\"|bas\"|cmd\"|zip\")
    {
        :0
        /dev/null
    }

I've attached a sample config file. It has lots of examples. It can help you to write task for your own purpose.

gheorghiua · #9 (**permalink**) 20-06-2009, 12:41 AM

I put together a .procmailrc file with a setting I thought maybe my case. I attached herein the 3 config files (.muttrc, .fetchamilrc, .procmailrc hope they were taken in my upload

). I found there is a new player now: 'sendmail' program which is set-up in the .procmail, and I am asking how I would run now the fetchmail and mutt to accomplish the following:
1. Get the e-mail from my gmail pop server
2. Move the e-mail from my provider (specified in .procmailrc)
3. Run mutt in command line and select that particular mailbox cdrs (which is in ~/Mail/cdrs) and operate on the newest message (the macro I have will take care of the message once I tap in that mailbox acording to a command line option for mutt or a .muttrc setting).
Sorry for being a pain.
Thanks so much again for any tips on how to 'put order in the chaos

'

nixcraft · #10 (**permalink**) 20-06-2009, 01:12 AM

Rename and upload them as a text file.

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