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[Mark Sapiro]

Anne Ramey wrote:

><snip>
>> Way 2 is to modify scripts/post to log something. At the end of the
>> main() function following:
>>
>>     inq = get_switchboard(mm_cfg.INQUEUE_DIR)
>>     inq.enqueue(sys.stdin.read(),
>>                 listname=listname,
>>                 tolist=1, _plaintext=1)
>>
>> add
>>
>>     print >> sys.stderr, _('post to %(listname)s received and queued')
>>
>>
>> This will write the 'post to %(listname)s received and queued' message
>> with the listname filled in to both the error and post logs for every
>> post. This again will tell you if the post got to the post script.
>>
>>   
><snip>
>
>OK, I added this code, but I get this:
>Oct 26 16:18:41 2007 post(17996): post to %(listname)s received and queued
>in the error log (it doesn't replace the listname with the variable) and 
>nothing in the post log.  Did I do something wrong?


Nothing in the post log is correct. I forgot what the
LogStdErr("error", "post") call in the script does. I thought the
second argument was a second log, but it's the identifying label.

The non-replacement of %(listname)s with the name is puzzling. The i18n
_() function should do this replacement. I copied the print directly
from below and it worked for me. However, you could do the
interpolation directly as in

    print >> sys.stderr, 'post to %s received and queued' % listname

and that should work.


>def main():
>    # TBD: If you've configured your list or aliases so poorly as to get
>    # either of these first two errors, there's little that can be done to
>    # save your messages.  They will be lost.  Minimal testing of new lists
>    # should avoid either of these problems.
>    try:
>        listname = sys.argv[1]
>    except IndexError:
>        print >> sys.stderr, _('post script got no listname.')
>        sys.exit(1)
>    # Make sure the list exists
>    if not Utils.list_exists(listname):
>        print >> sys.stderr, _('post script, list not found: %(listname)s')
>        sys.exit(1)
>    # Immediately queue the message for the incoming qrunner to 
>process.  The
>    # advantage to this approach is that messages should never get lost --
>    # some MTAs have a hard limit to the time a filter prog can run.  
>Postfix
>    # is a good example; if the limit is hit, the proc is SIGKILL'd 
>giving us
>    # no chance to save the message.
>    inq = get_switchboard(mm_cfg.INQUEUE_DIR)
>    inq.enqueue(sys.stdin.read(),
>                listname=listname,
>                tolist=1, _plaintext=1)
>    print >> sys.stderr, _('post to %(listname)s received and queued')
>

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