I'm running Exim 1.58, with the address_pipe transport as defined in the
default config file.
# This transport is used for handling pipe addresses generated by alias
# or .forward files. It has a conventional name, since it is not actually
# mentioned elsewhere in this configuration file.
address_pipe:
driver = pipe;
ignore_status,
return_output
If a user has a .forward file which contains something like
|/some/file/which/does/not/exist
the message disappears into a black hole....
If you remove ignore_status, messages get frozen.
This seems to be affecting a number of our users, as we run a cluster of Sun
and Silicon Graphics machines. Exim runs on a sun, and the SG MUA seems to
like creating a .forward file containing something like
|/usr/lib/Zmail/bin/reassembler
which of ocurse does not exist on the Sun....
Any suggestions/comments? Is this a sensible behaviour? would returning the
message to the sender make more sense?
Bruce.
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