procmail
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Quick Start with PROCMAIL

1996-12-29 09:20:05


Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 09:33:31 -0600
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem 
<MAILER-DAEMON(_at_)demthu(_dot_)saomai(_dot_)org>
Subject: Returned mail: /udd/michael/.forward: line 1: "|IFS=' '&&exec
/usr/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #michael"... User
michael(_at_)demthu(_dot_)saomai(_dot_)org
doesn't have a valid shell for mailing to programs
To: <viet(_at_)airmail(_dot_)net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure)

The original message was received at Sun, 29 Dec 1996 09:33:30 -0600
from mail.airmail.net [206.66.12.40]

   ----- The following addresses have delivery notifications -----
"|IFS=' '&&exec /usr/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #michael"
(unrecoverable error)
    (expanded from: <michael(_at_)saomai(_dot_)org>)

    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
 550 /udd/michael/.forward: line 1: "|IFS=' '&&exec /usr/bin/procmail
-f-||exit 75 #michael"... User michael(_at_)demthu(_dot_)saomai(_dot_)org 
doesn't have
a
valid shell for mailing to programs


I'm guessing that this relates to procmail's pipe functionality.

I'm also guessing that you can subvert this by including

SHELL=/bin/sh

in your .procmailrc

BTW: What is your login shell on this machine?

grep yourusername /etc/passwd