Neuer Betreff: demime.plrelatedproblem

21 Sep 2010


      On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Richard Ball wrote:
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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:04:21 -0400
From: Richard Ball rgball@ellerbach.com
To: smartlist@lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE
Subject: Re: demime.pl related problem
On 21-9-2010 12:44, Zhiliang wrote:
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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
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".
Thank you for suggestions on elinks etc. That's useful!
Zhiliang