Re: piping to programs

[Ambrose Li <ambrose@www.mingpaoxpress.com>]

On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Jan Rychter wrote:

>   I'm still struggling with piping mail to programs. Why do I get:
> 
> expn majordomo@localhost
> 250-Usage: login2uid login
> 250-Usage: fullname key
> 250-Usage: recase [ -u | -l | -p ] string
> 250-Usage: fullname key
> 550 no such user: <"|/local/majordomo/wrapper majordomo">
> 501 5.4.0 Unable to verify that address
> 
> even though majordomo works ? (the reason I'm asking this is because
> all of my list archivers stopped working when I switched to zmailer).

Intersting. I switched my home machine switched to zmailer for about half
a day before I switched it back to Smail because of problems piping to
programs (also mailing list related). But it says piping to programs is
not allowed instead of no such user.