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From: lm03_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Larry Moss)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: .forward problem
Summary: piping mail though a program
Message-ID: <10161@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 90 20:23:31 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York
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According to documention, man pages, and several other people I know, I
should be able to have my mail sent to me and through a program if my
.forward looks like:
	\lm03_cif,"|/u/cif/lm03_cif/prog"

When I do this, I do get a copy of the mail, but the second copy bounces
back with the error "unknown mailer 1".  I also get "getwd: can't stat .".
The program is readable and executable by world.  The directory it's in
is executable by world and every parent directory to that is executable.
Oh, this is on SunOS 4.0.3.  I hope that's enough information.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

thanks for any help,
Larry
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