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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: slocal problems
Message-ID: <1991Feb18.191020.25027@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 18 Feb 91 19:10:20 GMT
References: <1991Feb18.112609@isdc15.Kodak.COM>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <1991Feb18.112609@isdc15.Kodak.COM> sengillo@isdc00.Kodak.COM (Alan Sengillo) writes:
>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:<sengillo>
>250 <sengillo>... Sender ok
>>>RCPT TO:<sengillo>
>250 <sengillo>... 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

  The problem here has nothing to do with MH.  It is related only to the way
that 'sendmail' is setup.

  If mail is being forwarded to another machine, it is important that this be
done before the '.forward' is interpreted.

  You apparently have some strange setup whereby certain mail is forwarded to
a fileserver, but this is being done too late, after the '.forward'
interpretation.

  (I can give you more assistance by email if requested - I have recently
been dealing with related problems).

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940