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Re: Using pipe in .forward file

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From: Marshall Levin
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 03:36
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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.
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