Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!ns-mx!iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu!ceres.physics.uiowa.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!ispd-newsserver!kodak!isdc00!sengillo From: sengillo@isdc100.Kodak.COM (Alan Sengillo) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: slocal problems Message-ID: <1991Feb18.112609@isdc15.Kodak.COM> Date: 18 Feb 91 16:26:08 GMT Sender: news@kodak.kodak.com Reply-To: sengillo@isdc00.Kodak.COM (Alan Sengillo) Organization: Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY Lines: 38 -- I am using slocal to parse through my incoming mail, but there is a problem when someone tries to send me mail when they are logged onto a machine that uses the same /var/spool/mail directory. Here is what happens if I try to send myself mail. What now? send -watch -nopush /home/sengillo/.forward: line 1: sengillo... forwarding to "| /usr/local/lib/mh/slocal +inbox -user sengillo" Trying 129.126.18.35... connected. 220 music Sendmail 4.1/SMI-4.1 ready at Mon, 18 Feb 91 11:13:55 EST >>HELO isdc15.Kodak.COM 250 music Hello isdc15.Kodak.COM, pleased to meet you >>MAIL FROM: 250 ... Sender ok >>RCPT TO: 250 ... Recipient ok >>RCPT TO:<"| /usr/local/lib/mh/slocal +inbox -user sengillo"> 554 <"| /usr/local/lib/mh/slocal +inbox -user sengillo">... Cannot mail directly to programs send: message not delivered to anyone My .forward file contains the line: "| /usr/local/lib/mh/slocal +inbox -user sengillo" Does anyome know what I can do to fix this problem? version: MH 6.7.1 #21[UCI] (music) of Mon Feb 11 08:05:07 EST 1991 options: [BERK] [BSD42] [BSD43] [MHE] [NETWORK] [BIND] [RPATHS] [BANG] [MHRC] [NFS] [UCI] [SUN40] [TYPESIG=void] [DBM] [SENDMTS] | Alan Sengillo PHONE: (716) 726-9716 or 477-3503 | | Internet: sengillo@isdc00.kodak.com | | USMAIL: Eastman Kodak Co., Dept. 698, 2-1-EP, Rochester NY, 14653-5108 |