procmail: Skipped "{" and procmail: Closing brace unexpected

mike1950r · 10-23-2021, 06:12 AM

Hi,

I'm knew in the forum.
Hello to everybody.

I have two messages in procmail.log, which i don't find the reason for:

procmail: Skipped "{"
procmail: Closing brace unexpected

I just know it comes from a rule in procmailrc.
The rule is to forward email to two addresses with different, changed subjects. The rule is working fine, like it should.

:0 c
* (^TO_|for.*)myaddress@mydomain.com
{
:0 c
{
:0 hfw
* ^Subject:\/.+
| formail -I "Subject: FORWARDED:$MATCH"
:0 a
! first.address@firstdomain.com
}
{
:0 hfw
* ^Subject:\/.+
| formail -I "Subject: FORWARDED2:$MATCH"
:0 a
! second.address@seconddomain.com
}
}

If somebody could explain me the error I would be very thankful.

cheers mike

TB0ne · 10-23-2021, 07:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mike1950r

Hi,
I'm knew in the forum. Hello to everybody. I have two messages in procmail.log, which i don't find the reason for:

Code:

procmail: Skipped "{"
procmail: Closing brace unexpected

I just know it comes from a rule in procmailrc. The rule is to forward email to two addresses with different, changed subjects. The rule is working fine, like it should.

Code:

:0 c
* (^TO_|for.*)myaddress@mydomain.com
{
	:0 c
	{
		:0 hfw
		* ^Subject:\/.+
		| formail -I "Subject: FORWARDED:$MATCH"
		:0 a
		! first.address@firstdomain.com
	}
	{
		:0 hfw
		* ^Subject:\/.+
		| formail -I "Subject: FORWARDED2:$MATCH"
		:0 a
		! second.address@seconddomain.com
	}
}

If somebody could explain me the error I would be very thankful.

Please post such things in CODE tags...and if you read the message, it's fairly clear. It's telling you that somewhere you've got mismatched braces. You've posted one small part of your procmailrc file; the error is elsewhere. Since we don't have the file, we can't tell you where.

mike1950r · 10-23-2021, 10:14 AM

Hi,
thanks for answering.

Here is the whole file as attachment:

Hope this helps.

cheers mike

Code:

DROPPRIVS=yes
VERBOSE=yes
LOGABSTRACT=all
LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail.log

:0 fw
* <512000
| /usr/bin/spamc

:0
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
/dev/null

:0 c
* (^TO_|for.*)myaddress@mydomain.com
{
	:0 c
	{
		:0 hfw
		* ^Subject:\/.+
		| formail -I "Subject: FORWARDED:$MATCH"
		:0 a
		! anotheraddress@anotherdomain.com
	}
	{
		:0 hfw
		* ^Subject:\/.+
		| formail -I "Subject: FORWARDED2:$MATCH"
		:0 a
		! anotheraddress2@anotherdomain2.com
	}
}

:0 c
* (^TO_|for.*)myotheraddress@mydomain.com
{
	:0 hfw
	* ^Subject:\/.+
	| formail -I "Subject: FORWARDED:$MATCH"
	:0 a
	! anotheraddress3@anotherdomain2.comanotheraddress2@anotherdomain3.com
}

TB0ne · 10-23-2021, 10:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mike1950r

Hi, thanks for answering.
Here is the whole file as attachment: Hope this helps. cheers mike

Code:

DROPPRIVS=yes
VERBOSE=yes
LOGABSTRACT=all
LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail.log

:0 fw
* <512000
| /usr/bin/spamc

:0
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
/dev/null

:0 c
* (^TO_|for.*)myaddress@mydomain.com
{
	:0 c
	{
		:0 hfw
		* ^Subject:\/.+
		| formail -I "Subject: FORWARDED:$MATCH"
		:0 a
		! anotheraddress@anotherdomain.com
	}
	{
		:0 hfw
		* ^Subject:\/.+
		| formail -I "Subject: FORWARDED2:$MATCH"
		:0 a
		! anotheraddress2@anotherdomain2.com
	}
}

:0 c
* (^TO_|for.*)myotheraddress@mydomain.com
{
	:0 hfw
	* ^Subject:\/.+
	| formail -I "Subject: FORWARDED:$MATCH"
	:0 a
	! anotheraddress3@anotherdomain2.comanotheraddress2@anotherdomain3.com
}

Yes; check the procmail docs; there is a section dealing with your exact errors, and also explanations about the braces:
https://porkmail.org/era/procmail/mini-faq.html#skipped

mike1950r · 10-23-2021, 11:13 AM

Hi again,

thanks for your advice.

I have read the links of you, but did not get it working.

If you could modify my code I could learn much better by this example.
Like I said: My code is working,
I just get these two error messages.

Cheers mike

TB0ne · 10-23-2021, 01:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mike1950r

Hi again, thanks for your advice.

I have read the links of you, but did not get it working.

If you could modify my code I could learn much better by this example. Like I said: My code is working, I just get these two error messages.

Sorry, no...not going to write your code/configs for you, for free; read the "Question Guidelines" and LQ Rules.

Since you learn by example, there are plenty of them in the material you were given, along with explanations of both of those errors...that gives you everything you need.