[Mailman-Users] Using the inject script

[Dragon]

Patrick Bogen sent the message below at 15:30 7/13/2006:
>On 7/13/06, Dragon <dragon at crimson-dragon.com> wrote:
>>Just a quick question about using the inject script to put a message
>>in a list queue...
>>
>>What exactly is the inject script expecting? As in what exactly is
>>the format of the file that gets fed into it?
>
>pdbogen at vmmail:~$ /usr/lib/mailman/bin/inject
>Inject a message from a file into Mailman's incoming queue.
>
>Usage: inject [options] [filename]
>
>Options:
>
>    -h / --help
>        Print this text and exit.
>
>    -l listname
>    --listname=listname
>        The name of the list to inject this message to.  Required.
>
>    -q queuename
>    --queue=queuename
>        The name of the queue to inject the message to.  The queuename must be
>        one of the directories inside the qfiles directory.  If omitted, the
>        incoming queue is used.
>
>filename is the name of the plaintext message file to inject.  If omitted,
>standard input is used.
>
>A list name is required
>
>
>So, inject --listname=<list> <file>


Yeah, that part I got.

It's not the usage I am concerned with, I can issue the command and 
it seems to accept the file, but then nothing seems to happen. The 
message definitely does not get delivered to the intended list.

My specific question was about what should be in the file that gets injected.

So far it doesn't work with the variations in format I have tried so 
I am not sure what I am missing here.

><file> should be just an email in a text file.. I.e.,
>From: user at host
>To: <listname>@<listhost>
>Subject: Foo
>
>etc. All of the necessary headers. If your mail client has a way to
>export a mail, it's that format. AKA, .eml, I guess. Refer to the SMTP
>specifications for details on this, perhaps.

I tried what I thought was a reasonable approximation of the needed 
headers, essentially I added something like this (followed by the two 
blank lines required for the mail format):

         To: list at domain.com
         From: list-owner at domain.com
         Subject: List Guidelines
         MIME-Version: 1.0
         Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
         Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

I also tried it with and without a date header with the date/time 
close to when I tried to inject the message.

In every case, the message just seems to have disappeared. I see no 
evidence of it in any of the qfiles directories.

Would mailman log a failure with the inject script? I suppose I ought 
to go look at the logs to see if anything is there but that will have 
to wait until later this evening.

Dragon

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