Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:02:25 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/5273 patch for "newline" with procmail and vacation using ingo/procmail for setting vacation messages: if a user enters text which contains line breaks (carriage return, newline ...(?)) e.g. to seperate the complimentary close from the text or additional information .procmail then has each linebreak translated into "\r\n", example: ----- entered into ingo form: I am currently on vacation. As soon as i return i will answer your mail personally. With best regards M. Krause ----- this leads to the following in the procmail script: ----- .procmailrc echo "I am currently on vacation.\\r\\nAs soon as i return i will answer your mail personally.\\r\\n\\r\\nWith best regards\\r\\n M. Krause" \ ----- which is then display (e.g. in thunderbird) as one line: ----- I am currently on vacation.\\r\\nAs soon as i return i will answer your mail personally.\\r\\n\\r\\nWith best regards\\r\\n M. Krause ----- i think there is a command line option missing in the .procmailrc which is created by ingo in the "vacation part" to tell "echo" to enable interpretation of backslash escapes: -e patch -Naur: ----------- --- procmail.php.orig 2007-04-11 14:25:03.000000000 +0200 +++ procmail.php.patched 2007-04-11 14:25:48.000000000 +0200 @@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ $this->_action[] = ' | (formail -rI"Precedence: junk" \\'; $this->_action[] = ' -A"X-Loop: ' . $address . '" \\'; $this->_action[] = ' -i"Subject: ' . $params['action-value']['subject'] . '" ; \\'; - $this->_action[] = ' echo "' . str_replace("\r\n", '"; echo "', $reason) . '" \\'; + $this->_action[] = ' echo -e "' . str_replace("\r\n", '"; echo "', $reason) . '" \\'; $this->_action[] = ' ) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t'; $this->_action[] = ''; } ----------- Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:44:52 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/5273#t32040 This was not quite sufficient. Can you folks please try the following patch: http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php?f=ingo%2Flib%2FScript%2Fprocmail.php&r1=1.46.10.16&r2=1.46.10.17&t=unified Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:32:37 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/5273#t32258 > This was not quite sufficient. what do you mean by that? > Can you folks please try the following > patch: > http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php?f=ingo%2Flib%2FScript%2Fprocmail.php&r1=1.46.10.16&r2=1.46.10.17&t=unified it seems to work here ... (ingo 1.1.3) Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:11:00 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/5273#t32266 >> This was not quite sufficient. > what do you mean by that? That your changes alone didn't fix it. Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:42:40 +0000 https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/5273#t32277