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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sendmail works from script, but not when called from Apache Post 302521508 by MacQAGuy on Wednesday 11th of May 2011 12:10:58 PM
Old 05-11-2011
All,

I hate to admit it, but this was actually something really simple.

I had the portion of the script that sent the e-mail in a separate file, that was (supposed to be) sourced at the top of the main script. When I was running the main script interactively from the command line (when everything worked) it worked because I had already manually sourced that other file earlier in the Terminal session. And when apache was calling that other file it didn't work because that file hadn't been sourced yet. The reason it showed up as a sendmail error message was because in that other file I had named the routine that sent the e-mail "SendMail" as opposed to "sendmail" but when that other file wasn't sourced it was calling the normal sendmail program with no parameters -- thus the error.

Multiple mistakes here: 1) naming the separate routine "SendMail" rather than something more unique, 2) not sourcing the other file at the top of the main file.
 

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pollrcvd

POLLRCVD(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       POLLRCVD(8)

NAME

       pollrcvd - HylaFAX script for delivering facsimile received by polling

SYNOPSIS

       /var/spool/hylafax/bin/pollrcvd mailaddr faxfile devid commid error-msg

DESCRIPTION

       bin/pollrcvd  is the command script invoked by the HylaFAX server whenever a facsimile is received as a result of a polling operation.  The
       default script uses electronic mail to deliver the facsimile to the user that submitted the poll request, and can be controlled by  editing
       the etc/PollDispatch shell script in the spooling area that is sourced by pollrcvd when it runs.  The arguments are:

       mailaddr  the electronic mail address of the user that submitted the poll request.

       faxfile	 the pathname of the received TIFF file relative to the root of the spooling hierarchy.

       commid	 The communication identifier associated with the call (used to include a transcript when an error occurs).

       devid	 the modem device on which the document was received.

       error-msg an error message that is non-null if an error was encountered during the receive operation.

NOTES

       The default script delivers facsimile as PostScript wrapped in MIME.

FILES

       /var/spool/hylafax   spooling area
       /usr/sbin/faxinfo    for printing information about the facsimile
       /usr/bin/fax2ps	    for converting TIFF to PostScript
       /usr/lib/sendmail    for delivering mail

SEE ALSO

       faxq(8), hylafax-server(5), recvq(5)

								   May 12, 1996 						       POLLRCVD(8)
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