In testing the Exim configuration on our main MailServer prior to the
full installation of Exim on this system I have stumbled on a problem in
which Exim handles a pipe to ProcMail.
We have an alias in our main Aliases file which pipes all postmaster
mail through Procmail - this is so that it filters postmaster mail to
the appropriate persons. The entry is as follows
postmaster: "|IFS=' ' && exec /local/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75"
Exim balks with a message returned to sender
A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients.
The following address(es) failed:
postmast@???:
generated |IFS=' ' && exec /local/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75
"IFS='" command not found for pipe transport
The appropriate Pipe Transport entry in the configuration file is
# pipe:
# transport definition to handle pipe addresses generated by alias
# and forward directors (set by the main configuration variable
# address_pipe_transport)
pipe:
driver = pipe;
ignore_status,
return_output,
no_return_path_add
Once Exim is fully installed on the system - I plan to convert ProcMail
to Exim Filters but for now I need to get the above to work. The
simplest is to change the alias entry to "|/local/bin/procmail -f-"
but it seems to me that "IFS=' '" is crucial.
Any thoughts on how I can get round the problem albiet temporarily.
W.
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William Craven Email: William.Craven@???
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University of British Columbia FAX: +1-604-822-5116
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