procmail testing

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 01/22/2014 02:09 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 01/22/14 23:37, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> So you are correct that the formail is needed, as the reader does not have a date to show on displaying the message.  It does use the date in the first 'From ' line for the list of messages, and that mislead me yesterday.
>>
>> But I am having a problem of how to specify this:
>>
>> CRONDARGS=-m "formail -a "Date: `date`" | /usr/bin/procmail -f cron"
>>
>> The quoting is wrong.  How do I get the quoting right for this arg list?
>>
> I would "cheat".
>
> I would put formail -a "Date: `date`" | /usr/bin/procmail -f cron in a bash script called "mailme" in /usr/local/bin and then set
>
> CRONDARGS=-m /usr/local/bin/mailme
>
> Worked fine here....  Don't forget, of course, to make mailme executable.

Works!  Thanks!

I have one more item to work out.  It seems that on my servers, I have a 
timestamp in the email of when the cron job started, not ended.  This is 
interesting, as some of my cron jobs can take over an hour.  I have to 
look more into this before I can call success on this project.