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- From: scott@statsci.com (Scott Blachowicz)
- Subject: Re: sendmail.el: flags to /usr/lib/sendmail wrong?
- In-Reply-To: scott@statsci.com's message of Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:42:18 GMT
- Message-ID: <SCOTT.92Sep11102408@arugula.statsci.com>
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- Reply-To: scott@statsci.com
- Organization: Statistical Sciences, Inc., Seattle, WA USA
- References: <SCOTT.92Sep11094218@arugula.statsci.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 18:24:08 GMT
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- >>>>> "me" == Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com>
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- me> When I send mail (C-x m: mail) to a particular user, I get a message back
- me> that looks like this:
-
- me> Subject: returned mail for "| /usr/local/bin/filter"
-
- me> Mail error was: 554 <"| /usr/local/bin/filter">... Cannot mail directly to programs
-
- me> --- returned mail follows ---
-
- me> He has a .forward file that runs the filter program from the elm
- me> distribution.
-
- me> Any clues as to what might need changing in the SPARC's sendmail.cf file?
- me> or other ways to work around this?
- Right after I posted that I remembered a possible cause (commenting out the OR
- option line out of Sun's sendmail.cf file). That seems to have fixed the
- problem. After perusing Per Hedeland's list of problems with the OR option, it
- seems that it is a good idea to leave it commented out.
-
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