At 14:51 2003-03-06 -0500, Randy Burgess wrote:
I tried to put a pipe into the .redirect file for one of my aliases, but no
matter whether I pipe the alias to .forward or .procmail, mail bounces with
the following error:
The previously mentioned .redirect isn't a standard sendmail construct
(there's a redirect FEATURE, but that's a ".REDIRECT" suffix on aliases
which results in an automatically generated error message advising the
sender of the correct address to send mail to). It'd help to know what
this .redirect you speak of is. Is the file in your homedir, or off in
/etc/mail ?
BTW, your ISP is still running Sendmail 8.9.3. Unless they've _patched_
the version of sendmail they're running, the host is at risk:
<http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-07.html>
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"|/usr/bin/procmail"
(expanded from: <info(_at_)usable-thought(_dot_)com>)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
sh: procmail not available for sendmail programs
554 "|/usr/bin/procmail"... Service unavailable
'man smrsh' (SendMail Restricted SHell). The MTA is configured to restrict
what programs can be invoked by the prog mailer. Not affiliated whatsoever
with procmail itself, excepting that is the program you're trying to invoke
and smrsh isn't configured to permit it.
Is this something useful I can convey to my hosting company
(www.hostway.com)? Is it something they need to change on their end?
Something at their end. I'd just come off and ask THEM about what is
necessary to configure for invoking procmail on their host.
BTW, I'm sure you're well aware of this already, but hostway.com is well
known in the admin community as a hoster of spamsites. If you ever find
your email DNSBL'd for no apparent reason, that'd be the reason.
---
Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
Procmail disclaimer: <http://www.professional.org/procmail/disclaimer.html>
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