procmail - can it send a notification email?

[Christian Schult]

Hello David,

David Fletcher wrote:

[...]
> >from bash on the server "just works" and sends the email to me via my service 
> provider. What I want to do if possible is work this command into a 
> procmailrc recipe so that procmail notifies me that she has email, without 
> saying what the email is or where it's from. That's her business.
> 
> What I have at the moment is this:-
> 
> :0
> * ^To.*wife@
> {
>  :0:
>  wife
> 
>  :0 A
>  (sendEmail \
>   -f procmail at example.com \
>   -t me at example.com \
>   -u "Notification" \
>   -m "Your wife has new email" \
>   -s auth.smtp.example.com \
>   -xu userid -xp password)
> }
> 
> which is made up from what I've found in the man pages and google. The message 
> gets delivered to the mail box, but I can't get it to send the notification. 
> Am I taking a reasonable approach or is this completely wrong?

Looks good to me, maybe the round brackets aren't needed. What's in
the logfiles? Turn logging on in .procmailrc:

PMDIR="$HOME/.procmail  # where your procmail files reside
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log
LOGABSTRACT=all
VERBOSE=on

Also look into the log of sendEmail to see if the mail was even
generated and track the way the mail took.

Christian