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Article #3986Re: Using pipe in .forward file
From: Marshall Levin
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 03:36
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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