That did it! Thanks.
BTW - I changed the permissions to 777 earlier because it had not been
working and saw an earlier post suggesting that.
---Raymond
Yurij Polyanskij wrote:
>
> Raymond Blum wrote [Wed, 19 Apr 2000]:
>
> RB>Hi
> RB> I am trying to set up a user's mail going to an executable. I have the
> RB>~/.forward file containing
> RB> "| /home/raymond/mailrecvr"
> RB>and "mailrecvr" has 777 permissions
> RB>
> RB>but when I send mail to raymond, I get a bounce mail containing the
> RB>following:
> RB>
> RB><<snip>>
> RB>sh: mailrecvr not available for sendmail programs
> RB>
>
> Seems, your prog mailer is smrsh (look for "Mprog" declaration in
>/etc/sendmail.cf). If so, you have to copy mailrecvr to /etc/smrsh/ (or what is it on
>your box?) and do "|mailrecvr".
>
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