In fact it was a problem with the path for sendmail. However, exim has
not shown any errors in the logs, and has not returned any error
messages to the sender. Is this an expected behavior?
Anyway, thanks a lot for the help,
Julio
Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Julio wrote:
>
> > ---------- cut here ----------
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> >
> > while (<STDIN>) {
> > $message .= $_;
> > }
> >
> > open (SENDMAIL, "| sendmail testuser");
> > open (TEMP, ">/tmp/yyy");
> > print SENDMAIL $message;
> > print TEMP $message;
> >
> > close (TEMP);
> > close (SENDMAIL);
> >
> > ---------- cut here ----------
> >
> > if I send an e-mail to "tst" (that pipes the e-mail data to the
> > "/tmp/xxx"), the e-mail body is
> > correctly written to "/tmp/yyy", but no mail is sent to "testuser".
>
> What goes wrong? You are not testing for failures in your Perl. I
> strongly suspect that
>
> open (SENDMAIL, "| sendmail testuser");
>
> is failing. I would hazard a guess that this a path problem. Try
> replacing "sendmail" with "/usr/lib/sendmail".
>
> --
> Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
> ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
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