Just out of curiosity, what does the IFS= part do, and how necessary is it 
here?

By the way thanks for the info, Im reading up on smrsh now...

At 07:50 PM 5/2/2002 -0500, dman wrote:
>On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 05:13:03PM -0700, Jason Hough wrote:
>| I'm following the instructions in the README, but when I send a message to
>| myself (from another account), it bounces back with this message:
>|
>|    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
>| "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #jason"
>|     (reason: service unavailable)
>|     (expanded from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>|
>|    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>| smrsh: IFS=' not available for sendmail programs
>| 554 5.0.0 "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #jason"...
>| Service unavailable
>|
>| My .foward is setup exactly as the README says:
>| "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #jason"
>|
>| Can anyone help me figure this out? :) I'm a bit of a unix newb, only
>| enough knowledge to be dangerous, so any info or help is greatly
>| appriciated.
>
>That error says your are using sendmail as the MTA and 'smrsh'
>(SendMail Restricted SHell) to perform pipe deliveries.  sendmail
>delivers messages as root (I think), which is why allowing users to
>run any shell command is dangerous.  Thus they invented smrsh which
>only allows certain commands to be executed.  The command  IFS='
>isn't one of them, so smrsh complains.  (looks like it really could be
>smarter about that)
>
>That's as much as I know about your setup.  I use exim as my MTA and
>MDA, and it is much simpler (IMO).  Debian provides a ready-made
>package with a script to set up the basic configuration.  After that
>plugging SA into the picture can be done by following these directions :
>     http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/config_docs/
>
>-D
>
>--
>
>If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not
>in us.
>         I John 1:8
>
>GnuPG key : http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/public_key.gpg
>

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Jason Hough
Game Designer - Zono Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.zono.com
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