procmail & .forward

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 19.02.2004 schrieb NSL sysadms um 00:10:
> can you please tell me what is the significance of the following line in 
> .forward
> 
> 
> "|IFS=' '&&exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- ||exit 75 # username"
> 
> 
> i am getting an error
> 
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> "|IFS=' '&&exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- ||exit 75"
>     (reason: Service unavailable)
>     (expanded from: <username at my-server.com>)

It is:

"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail || exit 75 #username"

Check the spaces!

Alexander


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