From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 29 5: 9:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from d9168.upc-d.chello.nl (d9168.upc-d.chello.nl [213.46.9.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BDE737B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 05:09:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by d9168.upc-d.chello.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EBB5618B; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:09:21 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:09:21 +0100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Joe Oliveiro Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Email Directly to a program Message-ID: <20010129140921.I62745@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Joe Oliveiro , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from joe@advancewebhosting.com on Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 07:54:35AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 07:54:35AM -0500, Joe Oliveiro wrote: > This works to the most part with the exception of the email that gets sent > bounces back with a 500 error and says "You cannot email directly to a > program", the exact error is: What have you in your aliases-file now? I use(d) this and it worked like a charm: bind8: "|/home/lrrcv/bin/receive_mail -s dns -p bind8" Also have a look at the man-pages of "smrsh" (SendMail Restricted SHell) Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: mavetju@chello.nl | http://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org/ ------------------+ telnet://fataldimensions.nl.eu.org:4000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message