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From: trost@reed.bitnet (Bill Trost,Box 607,ext 640,)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Automatic incorporation of mail into inbox
Message-ID: <15518@reed.UUCP>
Date: 29 Sep 90 20:48:08 GMT
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rbeck@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu (Robert Beck) writes:
>I have tried:
>
>In file ".forward" ->
>| /usr/local/lib/slocal -user $USER
...
>This doesn't work - any idea what I am doing wrong?

sendmail is rather picky about punctuation in the .forward.  My
.forward is
	"|/usr/new/lib/mh/slocal -user trost"

When I remove the double-quotes from the .forward, errors like

	Sep 29 13:39:49 reed sendmail[28673]: AA28669: to=|/usr/new/lib/mh/slocal -user trost, delay=00:00:02, stat=unknown mailer error 1

appear in /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog.  Add double quotes, and you should
be fine.

Does anyone know the details on how sendmail parses the .forward?