PHP Filters in Windows 2003

[jstuckle]

I've got two problems which may or may not be related.

First of all, I'm trying to get a test filter written in PHP to run. This basic filter just takes the input arguments and writes them to a file (works fine by itself).

The server is Windows 2003 with two IP addresses. The primary IP is used for our live site, and the secondary one for testing. We have the primary domain MX record pointing to the primary IP and a test subdomain MX record pointing to the secondary IP. these work fine.

My first attempt was in filters.pre-data.tab to only process the secondary IP address and domain:

"*" "*@test.[DOMAIN]" "*" "[IPADDRESS]/32" "testfilter.tab"

testfilter.tab has:

"c:/php/php.exe" "[MAILROOT]/filters/helofilter.php" "@@FILE"

This setup calls the filter but with return code -121 (can't execute). I also tried it with no parameters in testfilter.tab, to no avail. I even tried with "c:\php\php.exe" and "c:\\php\\php.exe" to no avail. "Any idea what I'm doing wrong here?

Figuring it might be a problem with the way I was using the pre-data filter, I tried the following in filters.in.tab:

"*" "*@test.[DOMAIN]" "0.0.0.0/0" "0.0.0.0/0" "testfilter.tab"

The filter wasn't even being called (nothing in the filters log file). So I changed this to:

"*" "*" "0.0.0.0/0" "0.0.0.0/0" "testfilter.tab"

And the filter still wasn't being called.

Now I'm totally confused. From what I can tell in the docs, my entries are correct (tabs between entries, etc.). And testfilter.tab is in [MAILROOT]/filters (and seems to be called in the firs case, anyway).

Maybe these two are related and maybe they aren't. But I'd really like to get this going!

TIA for any help anyone can provide.

Jerry

[hschneider]

> "[MAILROOT]/filters/helofilter.php"

Replace "[MAILROOT]" with a valid path.

[jstuckle]

It is a valid path. I just don't list some of these things in a public forum.

And even if it weren't a valid path, I should still be able to execute PHP. I'd just get an error from PHP itself. As it is, I'm getting -121 trying to execute php.exe.

[hschneider]

Use \ instead of / ...

[jstuckle]

Thanks for the suggestion, but like I said in the first post, I've tried both single and double backslashes in it.

The whole thing has me very perplexed!

[hschneider]

Pls double check all paths and also if real tabs are used inside all .tab files.

[jstuckle]

Believe me - I have checked everything twice, long before I posted here. I do have tab characters in my .TAB files and the path to my PHP.EXE is correct.

I may be new to xmail - but I am not a newbie. And I still think it's something I've done wrong, but everything looks OK.

And I'm getting desparate enough to compile the source and start debugging...

[hschneider]

Gotit!

"c:\php\php.exe [MAILROOT]\filters\helofilter.php" "@@FILE"