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 1519

I 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