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- From: mlevin@teal.csn.org (Marshall Levin)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: Using pipe in .forward file
- Message-ID: <mlevin.728278596@teal>
- Date: 29 Jan 93 03:36:36 GMT
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- ttsai@crhc.uiuc.edu (Timothy Tsai) writes:
-
- >Question 1: What is "unknown mailer error 1"?
-
- >Question 2: Why does the error message say that the message couldn't be
- > delivered? The existence of test2.out indicates that test2 was
- > indeed activated. Did the mailer try to send more than one message
- > test2? Why do I even get the error message?
-
-
- I had a similar problem piping mail to a script. I later realized that the
- problem was that daemon didn't have the correct priviliges to execute a script
- that belonged to me, so I had to chmod to allow anyone to execute the script.
- Then all was well.
-