Bug 73937

Summary: can't put text in bounce message after setting LOGFILE
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jonathan Kamens <jik>
Component: procmailAssignee: Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad>
Status: ASSIGNED --- QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: fhrdina
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OS: Linux   
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Patch to support LOGSENDER variable none

Description Jonathan Kamens 2002-09-13 15:09:57 UTC 
With procmail 3.22, I would like to log the delivery of my mail, but I would
also like to be able to include messages in the bounces to senders that I
generate by setting ERRORCODE.

There is no easy way to do this -- once LOGFILE has been set, the stderr file
descriptor which goes back to the sender is lost, even if LOGFILE is
subsequently emptied.

The attached patch adds a new magic variable, LOGSENDER, which will generate a
message to the sender even if LOGFILE has been messed with.  To accomplish this,
opnlog has been modified to preserve the stderr file descriptor when opening a
log file.

I've also submitted this patch to bug.
Comment 1 Jonathan Kamens 2002-09-13 15:10:28 UTC 
Created attachment 76045 [details]
Patch to support LOGSENDER variable
Comment 2 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-09-16 20:11:49 UTC 
If added by upstream author, we'll get it from there. Adding non-standard
fucntionality specific to our packages is best avoided.
Comment 3 Jonathan Kamens 2007-03-25 06:21:18 UTC 
Can I ask you to reconsider adding this to the Fedora version of procmail?  I
submitted the patch to the authors of procmail four and a half years ago, and
they haven't bothered to incorporate it into their version.  As far as I can
tell, they simply aren't maintaining it anymore.  This is useful functionality,
which I'd love to see be more widely available than just my PC :-).
Comment 4 Jonathan Kamens 2007-03-25 06:38:30 UTC 
I just sent email to bug about this, and it bounced.  It seems
entirely likely that no one is minding the store anymore.  If you're going to
keep shipping a package with no upstream maintainer, methinks you ought to
consider patching it when people submit useful patches ;-).
Comment 5 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2010-04-15 15:58:29 UTC 
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.