Procmail question (sorry if last one failed)

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Do not delete the |.
You should have something like:
"|exec /usr/bin/procmail"
Also it is not a shell script, so it does not understand the #. Eliminate 
the #
"|exec /usr/bin/procmail || exit 75 ray"

"SethDev" wrote:
> When I took out |IFS=' ' && I got this:
> 
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> "exec /usr/bin/procmail || exit 75 #ray"
>     (reason: 550 5.1.1 User unknown)
>     (expanded from: <ray at devit.net>)
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 550 5.1.1 /home/ray/.forward: line 1: "exec /usr/bin/procmail || exit 75
> #ray"... User unknown
> 
> I've been trying lots of different ways to do this always with the same
> result. At this point none of the man pages are helping. I did a whoami to
> be sure I wasn't completely 'mad' and it did return ray. Anyone else have
> any suggestions?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-discuss at blu.org [mailto:owner-discuss at blu.org]On Behalf Of
> Jerry Feldman
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 8:09 PM
> To: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: Re: Procmail question (sorry if last one failed)
> 
> 
> I would just remove the IFS=' ' &&
> "SethDev" wrote:
> > 	If more info is needed let me know. Below is the message I get back whe
> > n
> > sending mail to my address. If I get rid of my .forward and .procmailrc
> > files everything works as usual.
> > 	I'm trying you use procmail for sorting and filtering.
> >
> >
> > The original message was received at Thu, 26 Apr 2001 04:38:13 -0400
> > from h0010a4efb13b.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.177.221]
> >
> >    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #ray"
> >     (reason: service unavailable)
> >     (expanded from: <ray at devit.net>)
> >
> >    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > smrsh: IFS=' not available for sendmail programs
> > 554 5.0.0 "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #ray"...
> > Service unavailable
> >
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> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> Boston Linux and Unix user group
> http://www.blu.org
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