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- From: msch@dia8.zfe.siemens.DE (Matthias Schneider)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
- Subject: Problem with sendmail.el and the vacation program
- Message-ID: <9211061131.AA18572@dia8.zfe.siemens.de>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 13:31:06 GMT
- Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu
- Organization: Gatewayed from the GNU Project mailing list help-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Lines: 48
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- I have trouble with the use of /usr/ucb/vacation on a Sun.
- Sending mail to a local user who has the vacation-program in his
- .forward-file results in an error.
- I'm using emacs18.58 without important changes.
-
- Here is what I have:
- ####
- The .forward-file of user msch as installed by /usr/ucb/vacation:
-
- \msch, "|/usr/ucb/vacation msch"
-
- #####
- The mail being sent out of emacs:
- To: msch
- Subject: test
- --text follows this line--
- test
-
- #####
- The resulting return mail:
-
- Subject: returned mail for "|/usr/ucb/vacation msch"
-
- Mail error was: 554 <"|/usr/ucb/vacation msch">... Cannot mail directly to programs
-
- --- returned mail follows ---
-
- #####
-
- This problem doesn't occur if I send the mail to another machine with
- a user using the vacation-program.
- It also doesn't happen when I send mail using /usr/ucb/mail.
- I assume that it is not a problem of the vacation-program but will
- happen with every pipe in an alias or .forward-file.
-
- Did soemone experience the same problem. Any hints how to overcome it?
- Please mail to the address below, I can't read gnu.emacs.help.
-
- msch@zfe.siemens.de
- (In real (?) life: Matthias Schneider-Hufschmidt
- Siemens AG, ZFE ST SN 71
- Otto-Hahn-Ring 6
- D-W8000 Muenchen 83
- Fed. Rep. of Germany
- Tel.: (++49|0)-89-636-2411
- FAX: (++49|0)-89-636-48000
- email: msch@zfe.siemens.de
- )
-