alertbot.pl ignores command line flags about scot

[toddbruner]

can you provide a "sanitized" command line example?

Option passed into alertbot.pl are passed into the ForkAlerts.pm module via the $opts_href. See around line 172 in alertbot.pl ( $bot->run($opts_href) )

If you can provide what options you attempted and why you think they failed, that will help us narrow down the problem.

[ajaymills]

Whoops of course I should have had an example...

At first I saw the interactive flag and wanted to test it just to get a feel for the process.

./alertbot.pl --int

There was no output.

Eventually I realized that it only checks the last 60 mins by default (and there were no emails in my mailbox during that range) so I wanted to override that:

./alertbot.pl --ago 4320

This is the last three days and I can see a few dozen unread emails in my test mailbox. But no new alerts appeared in the event list.

Could only get this to work by editing lib/Scot/Util/Imap.pm line 45. Then those older emails were pushed into the event list.

Even then interactive mode didn't seem to produce output though.... I notice ForkAlerts.pm line 65 delcares variable $interactive but it never appears to be set (that I can see at a glance...).

Thanks

[toddbruner]

Alertbot.p has been removed from 3.5.2. "alert.pl" is the replacement. Configuration of the its behavior is done through the file etc/mail.cfg.pl