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Re: AFS and .forward files...

1995-12-17 15:10:28
Trent Semeniuk wrote,

: Any suggestions?  I've tried all sorts of .forward files, the most
: successful seeming to be:
:
: "/afs/ualberta.ca/home/c/f/cfms/bin/procmail"

:    ----- The following addresses have delivery notifications -----
: "/afs/ualberta.ca/home/c/f/cfms/bin/procmail"  (unrecoverable error)
:     (expanded from: <cfms(_at_)gpu(_dot_)srv(_dot_)ualberta(_dot_)ca>)
:
:    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
: 550 /u/c/f/cfms/.forward: line 1: 
"/afs/ualberta.ca/home/c/f/cfms/bin/procmail"... Can't create output: Operation 
not permitted

You're leaving out the pipe symbol at the beginning of .forward, so your
mailer thinks that /afs/ualberta.ca/home/c/f/cfms/bin/procmail is a folder
to which you want your mail appended instead of realizing that it is a
program to process your mail.

Either you don't have write permission on the procmail binary, or the OS or
the mailer won't append to a binary file, so your mail cannot be added to the
end of the procmail binary (as well it should not be).

Put in the pipe symbol, like this:

   "| /afs/ualberta.ca/home/c/f/cfms/bin/procmail"

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