On 21-9-2010 14:28, Zhiliang wrote:
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Richard Ball wrote:
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:04:21 -0400 From: Richard Ballrgball@ellerbach.com To: smartlist@lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE Subject: Re: demime.pl related problem
On 21-9-2010 12:44, Zhiliang wrote:
I have "demime.pl" working fine on my list for a while, except once a while some spam mail cause this error to appear in a mail to the listmaster:
450 Lynx formatting failed: open3: exec of lynx --stdin --dump --force_html --hiddenlinks=ignore --localhost --image_links --nolist --noredir --noreferer --realm failed at /var/list/bin/demime.pl line 1519I could't figure out why and I was not really bothered as long as normal mailing works fine and the spam is filtered out. Now something weird happened -- upon a normal post by a legitimate user, the Smartlist completely replaced the mail body with this error line to have posted to the list.
Could anyone help for hints what could be wrong?
FYI - the demime.pl recipe is the very first before all others in rc.local:
:0 fw | /var/list/bin/demime.pl -That looks like a lynx error so I'd start by running the original message through lynx and see if you can work out why it is having a formatting problem.
You could also try replacing the lynx call with one to elinks (or w3m) and see if that works better for the problem messages.
Mind you, I don't use smartlist nor demime nor lynx etc. any more so your mileage may vary :-)
Rich
You mean the (old) text-only linux browser "lynx"? I don't have it on the system (probably that's why!). I only looked for "open3" from its depenecies :-|
Wonder why "demime.pl" needs to make http calls... I may need to look for a replacement for "demime.pl".
open3 is a perl function and not related to the html -> text conversion. IIRC the demime script needs lynx (or something similar) to do the actual conversion of the html code to plain text if there is not a plain text section already included in the message.
Rich
Thank you for suggestions on elinks etc. That's useful!
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