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Re: my .forward not works

2000-08-25 15:27:40
undergra <undergra(_at_)vallesnet(_dot_)org> writes:
Hi, i try to use my procmail with .forward
...
when i receive an e-mail...on /var/log/maillog i see..

550 5.7.1 /home/user/.forward: line 2: "|exec /usr/local/bin/procmail"... User 
user(_at_)daemon(_dot_)org doesn't have a valid shell for mailing to program


You'll need to talk to your sysadmins.  They need to either
a) add the shell you have on the mailserver to /etc/shells, or
b) add /SENDMAIL/ANY/SHELL/ to /etc/shells, or
c) make procmail the local delivery agent

All of those have security side-effects, so your sysadmins may take some
convincing.


Philip Guenther

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