Print certain emails using Postfix, Sieve and Cups

Hallo linuxer

I've got a little problem here and didn't find any answers yet. I've
tried to setup a sieve script which should redirect emails from
particular senders or to particular recipients to an alias called
print.
I have set up the alias
print: "|lpr -Plp"

When I send an email from the bash to print everything works fine and
the email is printed. When I send an email from outside the email is
just dropped in the normal mailbox without printing. I changed the
redirect destination in the Sieve script to another email address and
it
worked just fine. I don't know what could be wrong here. I also checked
my cups log. There is no attemped by postfix to use lpr.
Anybody an idea???
Thanks for your help

Markus



Markus Bender

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 01:52:16 -0800, Markus Bender wrote:

> Hallo linuxer
>
> I've got a little problem here and didn't find any answers yet. I've
> tried to setup a sieve script which should redirect emails from
> particular senders or to particular recipients to an alias called
> print.
> I have set up the alias
> print: "|lpr -Plp"
>
> When I send an email from the bash to print everything works fine and
> the email is printed. When I send an email from outside the email is
> just dropped in the normal mailbox without printing. I changed the
> redirect destination in the Sieve script to another email address and
> it
> worked just fine. I don't know what could be wrong here. I also checked
> my cups log. There is no attemped by postfix to use lpr.
> Anybody an idea???

Maybe either permissions or PATH. I did something similar, and for
testing purposes I put the print commands in a shell script, and added
that to the alias. So it went something like :
In aliases...
print:"|/tmp/myshellscript"

/tmp/myshellscript...
#!/bin/sh
lpr -Pmyprinter

chmod a+x myshellscript

That way I was sure postfix could execute the shell script. Once I had it
working, I moved the script to somewhere postfix had read/execute access,
but was safer than /tmp.

Also, check your logs for any possible errors...Postfix is reasonably good
at telling you exactly what's going on.

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