hi,
That's what I kind of though, but I see mailmain just pipes mail to a
binary file from the systems alias file:
kamlug: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post kamlug"
And it seems to work fine.
j.
......................
..... Jason C. Leach
... University College of the Cariboo.
. BSc. Comp. Sci. Candidate for 2001.
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, V. T. Mueller wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Jason C. Leach wrote:
> > I'm trying to write an address pipe. I have it all setup but when
> > executed I am left with the following message in Exim's mainlong:
> >
> > 2000-09-09 00:35:47 13XfAv-0000Oy-00 ** |/tmp/stats2.py <py@localhost>
> > D=system_aliases T=address_pipe: Child process of address_pipe transport
> > returned 1 from command: /tmp/stats2.py
> >
> > All I really have in the alias files is:
> > py: "|/tmp/stats2.py"
> >
> > And it just reads all the data from stdin and writes it to a file (for
> > now).
>
> Exim specs:
>
> [..]
> The `pipe' transport is used to deliver messages via a pipe to a command
> running in another process.
> [..]
>
> So it appears you better go with the appendfile rather than the pipe
> transport.
>
> hth,
> Volker
> --
> V. T. Mueller UCC Freiburg, Germany vtmue (at) uni-freiburg.de
>
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