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Re: formail: cannot open

1997-03-13 00:10:51
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997 00:30:39 -0600, Philip Guenther 
<guenther(_at_)gac(_dot_)edu>
wrote:
Deena Divakar <ddivakar(_at_)macaw(_dot_)retix(_dot_)com> writes:
Can somebody explain to me why this message is appearing in the log
file and how to fix it?
...
procmail: Executing "formail,-D,8192,msgid.cache"
formail: formail: cannot open
procmail: Program failure (1) of "formail"
Where is formail installed?  Is that directory in the PATH used by

I don't think that's it, as the error message seems to be coming from
formail itself. 
  Compare:

 $ cat scratch/prc
 :0
 | moomail

 $ procmail scratch/prc < rmail.out
 /bin/sh: moomail: cannot open

I played around (don't have the source handy) and tried to get that
same error somehow, and I couldn't, but I found another interesting
glitch:

 $ rm scratch/moo
 rm: scratch/moo: No such file or directory
 $ formail -D 8192 scratch/moo < $HOME/rmail.out
 $ ls -l scratch/moo
 -rw-------   1 reriksso system          0 Mar 13 08:58 scratch/moo
 $ chmod 000 scratch/moo
 $ formail -D 8192 scratch/moo < $HOME/rmail.out
 formail: Couldn't open
 Segmentation fault (core dumped)

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