I am forwarding Andre's message as acknowledgement of his help (he has
some problem posting to the list) and also advising for posterity that
the answer was like this:
CYRUSUSER2=` /bin/echo "$CYRUSUSER" | /usr/bin/tr A-Z a-z`
CYRUSUSER="$CYRUSUSER2"
(note the back ticks ` )
which started from Andre's solution (which didn't quite work) and after
a bit of bashing and reading of different procmail faqs, worked out ok.
For interest, if procmail failed, it delivered to the file /var/spool/mail/cyrus.
Its interesting to note that I've found a few lost emails (addressed to
NICK, Nick, etc). Bummer.
Thanks also to Jim for his post, which (if I hadn't fixed it already)
would have been helpful.
Forwarded by Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Andre Renaud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:02:15 +1200 (NZST)
Subject: Re: procmail variable assignment
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> Can i do something at the head of the procmail.global file to change
> $CYRUSUSER to all lowercase, like (in pseudocode)
> CYRUSUSER=lowercase($CYRUSYSER) --
try
CYRUSUSER2=| echo "$CYRUSUSER" | tr A-Z a-z
CYRUSUSER="$CYRUSUSER2"
Unfortunately you have to use two variables (from the mini-FAQ):
Variable capture clobbers variable's old value
I.e. the following doesn't work as expected:
:0
variable=| echo "$variable" | tr A-Z a-z
The value of variable will be empty by the time the echo executes.
Hope this helps,
Andre
PS. I haven't posted this to the list, it screws with my emails.
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