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Date:      Thu, 29 Jan 1998 13:14:50 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@bigbrother.rust.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "procmail not available for sendmail programs" ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980129131318.29819G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199801271445.JAA20556@bigbrother.rust.net>

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On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Michael W. Lucas wrote:

> I installed procmail on a 2.2.2-RELEASE machine.  I have the .forward,
> .procmailrc, etc. set up. 
> 
> Whenever I attempt to send email to my account on that machine, I get
> an error.  The following is output from Mail -v, plus my word wrapping...
> 
> /home/mwlucas/.forward: line 1: forwarding to "| /usr/local/bin/procmail 
> #mwlucas"
> "| /usr/local/bin/procmail #mwlucas"... Connecting to prog...
> sh: procmail not available for sendmail programs
> "| /usr/local/bin/procmail #mwlucas"... Service unavailable
> /home/mwlucas/.forward: line 1: forwarding to "| /usr/local/bin/procmail 
> #mwlucas"
> /home/mwlucas/dead.letter... Saved message in /home/mwlucas/dead.letter
> 
> Any thoughts on what to check?

Your sendmail is set up with restricted binaries.  You need to put a copy
of procmail in /usr/libexec/sm.bin.  See `man smrsh'.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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