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From: bentahar@eng.umd.edu (Naim L. Bentahar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Sendmail/Aliases problem
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Date: 9 Oct 90 19:59:20 GMT
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Hello,

Has anyone experienced a problem with sendmail and an alias pointing to a 
a program ?
For example, the following line should execute the program "program" when
you send mail to test (works the same way as in the vacation program).

test: "|/usr/local/bin/program"

When I send an email to test, I get a returned mail saying: 
unknown mailer error 1

The program is a very simple script that filters the mail looking for a specific
domain. This program has been working on a SUN/IBM RT/ULTRIX machine for months
without any problem. So I suspect that there is a problem with sendmail
running a program from the aliases file.

Have you heard about this problem? Is there anything I can do to fix it.

Thanx for any help.

Naim Bentahar