vacation recipe

I'm just getting started using procmail, and am having a great deal of
trouble getting this modified procmailex vacation recipe to work. 
Simplier fuctions work just fine. Can anyone see what's wrong? TIA


   SHELL=/bin/sh    # for other shells, this might need adjustment

             :0 Whc: vacation.lock
               # Perform a quick check to see if the mail was addressed
              * $^To:.*\<$\bbrace\>
               # Don't reply to daemons and mailinglists
              * !^FROM_DAEMON
               # Mail loops are evil
              * !^X-Loop: bbrace(_at_)wired(_dot_)com
               * !^X-Loop: bbrace(_at_)get(_dot_)wired(_dot_)com
               * !^X-Loop: bbrace(_at_)netcom(_dot_)com
              | formail -rD 8192 vacation.cache

                :0 ehc         # if the name was not in the cache
                | (formail -rA"Precedence: junk" \
                     -A"X-Loop: bbrace(_at_)wired(_dot_)com" ; \
                      -A"X-Loop: bbrace(_at_)get(_dot_)wired(_dot_)com" ; \
                      -A"X-Loop: bbrace(_at_)netcom(_dot_)com" ; \
                   echo "just a test";\       
                   echo "Auto-Reply: I received your mail,"; \
                   echo "but I won't be back until later."; \
                   echo "If your message came from a Wired domain,";\
                   echo "it was also forwarded to my Netcom account,";\       
                   echo "which I monitor while not at Work.";\
                   echo "-- "; cat $HOME/sig2 \
                  ) | $SENDMAIL -oi -t


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brad brace <bbrace(_at_)wired(_dot_)com>
prepress specialist
wired magazine, sfo


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