Hello all,
First thanks to Eli, Era, and Ian for their educational critique of
my initial jumble of questions, they offered insight indeed.
With a few less hairs I have pared both my .forward file and my
.procmailrc file to:
#---.forward----
"|IFS=' '&&exec /opt/gnu/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #eccl"
#----.procmailrc----
SHELL=/bin/sh
VERBOSE=off
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail <-- it's there
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log
SENDMAIL=/usr/lib/sendmail
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail <-- it's there too
:0
* ^TO.*webmaster
! tandrews(_at_)atcon(_dot_)com
:0
* ^TO.*postmaster
! tandrews(_at_)atcon(_dot_)com
:0
* ^TO.*root
! tandrews(_at_)atcon(_dot_)com
:0
* ^TO.*eccl
! eccl(_at_)upei(_dot_)ca, tandrews(_at_)atcon(_dot_)com
#------end---------
This with the understanding that all mail addressed to webmaster,
postmaster and root should be directed to me, and anything that is
addressed to eccl(_at_)eccl(_dot_)ca should be directed to both addresses.
Syntax correct here?
To date, *any* test message I send to any of these addresses gets
spit back with a mess including fatal errors and unsafe to mail to
programs messages.
A copy of mail returned from a test message to postmaster(_at_)eccl(_dot_)ca
returns the following mess (to me so far anyway):
****part one (my annotation)
The original message was received at Tue, 10 Jun 1997 13:02:16 -0400 (EDT)
from root(_at_)loki(_dot_)atcon(_dot_)com [199.166.213.6]
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"|IFS=' '&&exec /opt/gnu/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #eccl"
(expanded from: <postmaster(_at_)eccl(_dot_)ca>)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 /disk15/usr/eccl/.forward: line 1: "|IFS=' '&&exec /opt/gnu/bin/procmail
-f-||exit 75 #eccl"... Address <postmaster(_at_)eccl(_dot_)ca> is unsafe for
mailing to programs
****part two
--NAA19247.865962140/mail.digiweb.com
Content-Type: message/delivery-status
Reporting-MTA: dns; mail.digiweb.com
Received-From-MTA: DNS; loki.atcon.com
Arrival-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 13:02:16 -0400 (EDT)
Final-Recipient: RFC822; eccl(_at_)mail(_dot_)digiweb(_dot_)com
X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; "|IFS=' '&&exec /opt/gnu/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75
#eccl"@mail.digiweb.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.7.1
Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 13:02:21 -0400 (EDT)
--NAA19247.865962140/mail.digiweb.com
Content-Type: message/rfc822
Return-Path: <tandrews(_at_)atcon(_dot_)com>
Received: from loki.atcon.com (root(_at_)loki(_dot_)atcon(_dot_)com
[199.166.213.6])
by mail.digiweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA19234
for <postmaster(_at_)eccl(_dot_)ca>; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 13:02:16 -0400
(EDT)
Received: from tandrews.atcon.com (ts1-d155.cht.atcon.com [198.167.17.155]) by
loki.atcon.com (8.8.5/1.355) with SMTP id NAA01709 for
<postmaster(_at_)eccl(_dot_)ca>; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 13:02:12 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199706101702(_dot_)NAA01709(_at_)loki(_dot_)atcon(_dot_)com>
Comments: Authenticated sender is <tandrews(_at_)mail(_dot_)atcon(_dot_)com>
From: "Todd Andrews" <tandrews(_at_)atcon(_dot_)com>
To: postmaster(_at_)eccl(_dot_)ca
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 14:02:00 -4000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Subject: test2
Reply-to: tandrews(_at_)atcon(_dot_)com
Priority: normal
X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.41)
****part three
test2
Todd Andrews -> tandrews(_at_)atcon(_dot_)com
http://users.atcon.com/~tandrews (home)
Eastern Canada College of Languages
http://eccl.ca (ESL, QT, RA, TOUR)
--NAA19247.865962140/mail.digiweb.com--
Sorry for the length (vertical and horizontal...). I have been sticking like
glue to the
template given by the host, and still recieve these error messages.
Can anyone suggest why? Am I missing an X-Loop?
Log files are not generated, verbose or not, and there is never any mail to
find in
the mail dir. Flustered, yes....
Wet behind the ears yes, but do appreciate any suggestions.
Todd Andrews -> tandrews(_at_)atcon(_dot_)com
http://users.atcon.com/~tandrews (home)
Eastern Canada College of Languages
http://eccl.ca (ESL, QT, RA, TOUR)