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Re: beginner's question

2006-10-03 09:59:59
Beg your patience with me. I am willing and trying to learn but these are 
my first steps with procmail under FreeBSD 6.1. I have put the following 
in the .forward file:

"|exec /usr/local/bin/procmail || exit 75"

And I get this error when I try to send mail to a user where procmail 
should do some action:

2006-10-03 14:51:03 1GUjji-0008lE-Oc ** |exec /usr/local/bin/procmail || 
exit 75 <ADDRESS_GOES_HERE> R=userforward 
T=address_pipe_local: 
"exec" command not found for address_pipe_local transport

Perhaps I should also add that I use exim 4.63.

Sadly, there is a lot of ancient advice about procmail still floating
around the Internet.  The advice above was written in the context of
Sendmail calling /bin/sh to handle writes to pipes (i.e. the "prog"
mailer in sendmail).  The string following the "|" symbol is actually
a shell command, i.e. "execute /usr/local/bin/procmail or exit with
a status of 75 if you are unable to do so".

It looks like exim is trying the execute the "exec" command by finding
and invoking a program named "exec" but there is no such program; "exec"
is a command built-in to the Bourne shell and its workalikes.

Try changing your .forward entry to

"|/usr/local/bin/procmail"

or

"|/bin/sh -c 'exec /usr/local/bin/procmail || exit 75'"


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