Great! Glad you got it working. I was suspicious something was wrong with
the aliasing, thus the question about the mail agent.

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Benjamin Fleischer <[email protected]>wrote:

> Actually, perhaps it was a quirk of how my /etc/aliases works. In any
> event, I created the script
> /root/usr/local/scripts/tracksms
>
> #!/usr/bin/env bash
> /usr/local/ruby/bin/ruby /var/www/tracks/script/runner  -e production
> 'MessageGateway.receive(STDIN.read)'
>
> chmod +x /root/usr/local/scripts/tracksms
>
> And then created the alias
> tracks: "|/root/usr/local/scripts/tracksms"
>
> I sent the email from my gmail with the subject:
> Testing @ Home >project testing
> and body:
> Testing @ Home >project testing
> Test test test
>
> It created a todo with a description Testing, context Home, and project
> None (oops) and body ibid.
> At least it's working. Something about having a space in the alias did go
> well.
>
> -Benjamin
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Benjamin Fleischer 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure that I understand your question.
>>
>> I tried sending an email which failed (below) and, later, also a text
>> which failed which an (obviously) truncated error in the sms text.
>>
>> I'm hosting on WestHost and a forum there says
>> "At WestHost sendmail is the MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) and procmail is the
>> LDA (Local Delivery Agent)."
>>
>> FWIW, I edited my /etc/aliases file manually because their online site
>> manager wouldn't let me create a command alias with parentheses in it.
>>
>> -Benjamin
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Eric Allen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> What mail delivery agent are you using for the alias?
>>> On Apr 30, 2009, at 12:48 PM, Benjamin Fleischer wrote:
>>>
>>> testing sms from my regular email.  I am writing from my gmail address
>>> and set it up in preferences with my gmail address as my from sms address. I
>>> set the default context at home.
>>>
>>> I set up the alias
>>> tracks: "|/usr/local/ruby/bin/ruby  /var/www/tracks/script/runner -e
>>> production 'MessageGateway.receive(STDIN.read)'"
>>>
>>> I sent the email
>>> Subject:
>>> Testing @ Home >project testing
>>> Message:
>>> testing this note
>>>
>>> And got back this error message. Any ideas?
>>> The original message was received at Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:35:09 -0600
>>> from mail-gx0-f205.google.com [209.85.217.205]
>>>
>>>   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
>>> "|/usr/local/ruby/bin/ruby"
>>>    (reason: 1)
>>>    (expanded from: <[email protected]> )
>>>
>>>   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>>> -:1: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
>>> -:1: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
>>> -:1: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
>>> -:1: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
>>> -:1: syntax error, unexpected tINTEGER, expecting $end
>>> >From [email protected] Thu Apr 30 10:35:10 2009
>>>                                       ^
>>> 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 1
>>>
>>> Final-Recipient: RFC822; [email protected]
>>> X-Actual-Recipient: X-Unix; |/usr/local/ruby/bin/ruby
>>> Action: failed
>>> Status: 5.0.0
>>> Diagnostic-Code: X-Unix; 1
>>> Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:35:10 -0600
>>>
>>>
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