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Re: (procmail) Executing a program on reception of mail from someone

1998-01-12 13:04:05

Reto Lichtensteiger wrote:

Any indications in the Procmail log file as to what's going on?

(VERBOSE=yes in the .procmailrc file)

ah ha!

 procmail: Executing "/usr/X11R6/bin/auplay /usr/lib/exmh/drip.au"
 Can't connect to audio server

Strange.  The command works from the shell if I `su' to user `mail'.
Anyway, I got it to work by fully specifying the audio server (which is my
workstation, where I receive mail)

:0 ic
* ^From: Peter S Galbraith <galbraith(_at_)mixing(_dot_)qc(_dot_)dfo(_dot_)ca>
| cat > /dev/null; /usr/X11R6/bin/auplay -audio tcp/mixing:8000 
/usr/lib/exmh/drip.au

Thanks to all who helped!
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Peter Galbraith, research scientist             
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