From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 9 8:24:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fepZ.post.tele.dk (fepz.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7415337BB8B for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 07:29:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from topdog.dk ([195.215.245.30]) by fepZ.post.tele.dk (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010209152858.DJLU4538.fepZ.post.tele.dk@topdog.dk>; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 16:28:58 +0100 Message-ID: <3A840CC0.1728309B@topdog.dk> Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 16:29:04 +0100 From: Halfdan Mouritzen Reply-To: halfdan@topdog.dk Organization: topdog X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; EBM-APPLE} (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HELP - qmail alias file. References: <3A836942.C562E68E@topdog.dk> <20010209113755.A90670@rapier.smartspace.co.za> Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG  

Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:

On Fri 2001-02-09 (04:51), Halfdan Mouritzen wrote:
> I'm desperately trying to get an email parsed by a script by using a .qmail-
> file.
>
> I've got a mail account called test.
> I've got a .qmail-test file in my root dir. (usr/hotel/topdog/)
> In the .qmail-test file it says
> | usr/hotel/topdog/WWW/temp/qmailtest.php
> What the php file does doesn't really matter, at the moment it just sends a
> mail to me when invoked.
>
> All the files are chmod 777.
>
> This is how I believe it should be done; but the server is persistent that I am
> a fool, and know nothing.
>
> Can somebody please help me??
>
> I would be very happy :)
>
> Sorry again if this is an inappropriate place for this question, but I've
> looked everywhere and I'm desperate..

What does it say in the logs?  It might be complaining that people can
edit your .qmail-test file - it shouldn't be group and other writable,
for example.

BTW, try not to post HTML.

Neil
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I had understood that all the files (and the .qmail files) should be chmod 777...
That might be the problem,
I'll have a try, and at the same time look at the logfiles.

Thanks
// Halfdan
I'll avoid HTML, sorry :)

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