[Mimedefang] Testing for the existence of a header

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Nigel Allen wrote:

>         my $dirname = '"/home/plans/Maildir/.' . $pad_spno . '"';
                         ^^ Drop the double quotes

>         if  (! -d $dirname) {
>            return action_bounce ("You entered $spno which is an invalid 
> code. Folder name was $dirname");
>         }
>      }
>   }
>
> I got the "staff_codes" thing working (thanks to previous assistance here) 
> but when I test the folder part I get the following displayed:
>
> Oct  2 13:24:12 sydsrv01 sendmail[7872]: m923OA78007872: Milter: data, 
> reject=554 5.7.1 You entered 226 which is an invalid code. Folder name was 
> "/home/plans/Maildir/.   226"
>
> But the folder definitely exists. Is this something to do with the difference 
> between ' and "?

No, but you use two quotes at once.

> If I copy the message portion and test it I get this:
>
> [root at sydsrv01 mail]# ls -ld "/home/plans/Maildir/.   226"
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct  2 12:47 /home/plans/Maildir/.   226

OK, but the shell interpretes the double quotes itself, they are not part 
of the filename, which ypu can see that ls do not outputs them.

Bye,

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Steffen Kaiser
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