Found solution to AUTORES problem- Any thoughts as to the Whys?

All,

I finally found a solution to getting my autoresponder working.  For
the life of me I can't manage to figure out WHY this method works
while the standard method does not. My best guess from hours of
troubleshooting is that using | or < to pipe or feed info to programs
that are executed with a "|" causes things to fail...

Here is the working code (notice I use no pipes or < in my executed programs):

:0wc
* !^FROM_DAEMON
* !^X-Loop: jlyman(_at_)$PRIMEDOMAIN
    {
    :0wc
    * ? $TEST -f $MAILROOT/jlyman.txt
        {
        :0fwc
        | formail -r
        :0Afbw
        | cat $MAILROOT/jlyman.txt
        :0wc
        | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f jlyman(_at_)$PRIMEDOMAIN
        }
    }


AND here is the code that doesn't work (the code that EVERYONE in the
world uses... notice how output is PIPED through to another program
which should be running):

:0wc
* !^FROM_DAEMON
* !^X-Loop: jlyman(_at_)$PRIMEDOMAIN
| (formail -r -I"Precedence: junk" \
-A"X-Loop: jlyman(_at_)$PRIMEDOMAIN" ; \
cat $MAILROOT/jlyman.txt) | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t



Any thoughts are appreciated... I don't want a server that works but has quirks.

Joe

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