From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 25 17:17:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ED4A37B400 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 17:17:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C6C943E6E for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 17:17:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parv_fm@mailsent.net) Received: from sdn-ap-030dcwashp0093.dialsprint.net ([65.177.112.93] helo=moo.holy.cow) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17j7Zd-0005vf-00; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 17:17:42 -0700 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 50D5DC74C; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 20:20:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 20:20:17 -0400 From: parv To: Dave Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: procmail and .forward woes Message-ID: <20020826002017.GA84755@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Dave , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20020825022823.A13293@limpid.insensible.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020825022823.A13293@limpid.insensible.net> 'From: parv ' Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG do wrap lines around 69 or so characters to give me no incentive to ignore your mail otherwise. in message <20020825022823.A13293@limpid.insensible.net>, wrote Dave thusly... > > ... This is more of a procmail / .forward problem than an > application problem. > > My .forward file looks as such: > > "|/usr/local/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #morbiddk@insensible.net" > > ... .procmailrc ... > > :0fw > | /home/morbiddk/bin/SpamAssassin/spamassassin -P -c /home/morbiddk/bin/SpamAssassin/rules ... > on my FreeBSD machine I get 2 messages, one is the actual message > sent and the other is a Mail Delivery System failure message. The > contents of one of these failed messages is as follows: > > Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender > This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). > > A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its > recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: > > pipe to |/usr/local/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #morbiddk@insensible.net > generated by morbiddk@insensible.net after setting up procmail to be run via .forward, i was also getting the similar messages from sendmail. below is what i have in my .forward... "|exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f- /home/parv/.procmailrc || exit 75#parv" ...try specifying the .procmailrc. somebody more knowledge should tell us the exact problem & solution. > The following text was generated during the delivery attempt: > > ------ pipe to |/usr/local/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #morbiddk@insensible.net > generated by morbiddk@insensible.net ------ > > procmail: Couldn't read "/home/morbiddk/||" when i received these messages (from sendmail) i didn't read upto here. ( for one-two days i remain bewildered. then i installed postfix, rebuilt alias database, fiddled w/ .forward, & problem went away. that is not to say those were/are the exact steps to solve the issue; it just happens to be that way for me. ) - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message