Re: exim questions

["Gregory T. Norris" <haphazard@socketis.net>]

> > What is the ownership and permissions on that .forward file? Does the mail
> > user have permission to read it? What does /var/log/exim/mainlog or
> > /var/log/paniclog say about it?
> 
> It is owned by myself and group "users", with mode 644.  The error-message
> coming out of mainlog is:
> 
> -----
> "IFS='" command not found for address_pipe transport
> -----
> 
> I've tried playing with the quoting in .forward, but it doesn't seem to
> make any difference.

Well, I've gotten this half of it taken care of, at least.  It seems
that smail invokes a subshell when processing the .forward file, while
exim doesn't.  So I just had to trim the contents doen to:

-----
"|/usr/bin/procmail -Yf-"
-----

Works like a charm again.