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Re: [Q] Piping to formail fails, but piping to sendmail works

1999-12-29 21:19:34
Sam wrote,

| This recipe works fine:
| 
|   :0 c
|   |$SENDMAIL sam
| 
| But when I try to use formail, it fails:
| 
|   :0 c
|   |/usr/local/bin/formail | $SENDMAIL sam
| 
|   :0 c
|   |(/usr/local/bin/formail) | $SENDMAIL sam
| 
|   # Even this does not work and /tmp perms are fine
|   :0 c
|   |cat >> /tmp/out

Here's a thought: the recipe with no characters from $SHELLMETAS works,
but those with characters from $SHELLMETAS do not.  So, first question,
what is $SHELL set to?  Perhaps to a name (or a relative path) that doesn't
exist?