Topic: procmail log and verbose

[Chris B]

Is there a way to get a bit more info in the pocmail.log file. I am looking for something between VERBOSE=no and VERBOSE=yes in .promailrc.

With 'no' we get the Subject, Size, and where the message went. I would like to add another header or two to the list without the full verbose. (Like the From, and one of the spamassassin headers.)

Thanks for the info.

[Rich Lafferty]

Yes, but it's not that straightforward. You can set the 'TRAP' variable
to the path of a program that will have the message piped to it when
mail arrived, and then that program can append to the procmail log.
Icky, but it works.

In .procmailrc:

  TRAP=$HOME/.procmail/TRAP

In ~/.procmail/TRAP, something like:

perl -e '
$header = 1;
while (<>) {
    print "    $_" if /^From:/ and $header;
    print "      $_" if /^To:/ and $header;
    print "  $_" if s/^Message-ID:/Msg-ID:/i and $header;
    $lines++ unless $header;
    $header = 0 if /^$/;

};
print "   Lines: $lines\n";
'

[Rich Lafferty]

Woops, that was unclear. Procmail executes TRAP when it exits,
providing the mail message on STDIN, and writing whatever it gets
on STDOUT to the logfile -- you don't have to append to the logfile
directly in the program.