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I don't know if this is a bug with procmail(3.10.7-1.5), exim (1.81-1), or
me, so I thought I would ask. I recently switched to exim from smail on my
hamm (currently as up to date as possible) which unfortunately bounced all
of my mail. It seems that exim doesn't like the mail filter pipe used by
procmail in my .forward. The error message is below whivh also includes a
copy of my .forward. Any ideas what is wrong? It seems to me that somehow
the blank assigned to IFS is not being passed properly. Any help is
gratefully appreciated. Cheers.

--
Colin Telmer, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
<mailto:telmerco@qed.econ.queensu.ca>
<http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 10:58:45 -0500
From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@cgowave-12-109.cgocable.net>
To: telmerco@terrapin.econ.queensu.ca
Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients. The
following address(es) failed:

  telmerco@cgowave-12-109.cgocable.net:
    generated |IFS=' ' && p=/usr/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Yf- || exit 75 #telmerco:
    "IFS='" command not found for address_pipe transport

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

Return-path: <telmerco@terrapin.econ.queensu.ca>
Received: from (terrapin.econ.queensu.ca) [130.15.134.30] (root)
	by cgowave-12-109.cgocable.net with esmtp (Exim 1.81 #1)
	id 0xkWjE-00004N-00 (Debian); Tue, 23 Dec 1997 10:58:44 -0500
Received: by terrapin.econ.queensu.ca
	id m0xkWjE-00029wC
	(Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Tue, 23 Dec 1997 10:58:44 -0500 (EST)
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 10:58:44 -0500 (EST)
From: "Colin R. Telmer" <telmerco@qed.econ.queensu.ca>
X-Sender: telmerco@terrapin.econ.queensu.ca
To: telmerco@cgowave-12-109.cgocable.net
Subject: test from wave (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.971223105817.8080A-100000@terrapin.econ.queensu.ca>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII



--
Colin Telmer, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
<mailto:telmerco@qed.econ.queensu.ca>
<http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 10:56:57 -0500 (EST)
From: "Colin R. Telmer" <telmerco@qed.econ.queensu.ca>
To: "Colin R. Telmer" <telmerco@qed.econ.queensu.ca>
Subject: test from wave

test from wave

--
Colin Telmer, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
<mailto:telmerco@qed.econ.queensu.ca>
<http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca>


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