git master notifyd/notify_external.c and *user

[Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)]

Hi there,

I was trying to get git master HEAD to execute an external program 
(notify_external: /usr/bin/myprogram), but it complained "no recipient 
sepcified" - short of the typo that I corrected, it seemed that the 
check:

    if (!*user) {
        syslog(LOG_ERR, "ERROR: recipient not specified");
        return strdup("NO external recipient not specified");
    }

at [1] was causing this.

For the sake of argument, I removed the check, and voila - my program 
is actually being executed.

Does anyone have any idea what the "-u USER" parameter is supposed to 
be doing / does anyone actually successfully use notify_external?

Thanks.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

[1] 
http://git.cyrusimap.org/cyrus-imapd/tree/notifyd/notify_external.c#n78

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