Re: installation

Hi Ingo,

Not sure if this is any good, but my .forward is completely enclosed
in quotes. Might be worth you trying:

"|/usr/bin/ask.py --loglevel=5 --logfile=/home/ingo/.ask/ask.log --home=/home/ingo"

Regards

Paul

On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 8:05:44 PM, Ingo wrote:



Ingo> hello,

Ingo> i have tried this for half a day now, and must be missing one whee
Ingo> bit to get it to work.

Ingo> here is my .forward file :
Ingo> -rw-------    1 ingo     ingo           84 Sep 23 20:02 .forward

Ingo> this is in it:
Ingo> |"/usr/bin/ask.py --loglevel=5
Ingo> --logfile=/home/ingo/.ask/ask.log --home=/home/ingo"

Ingo> ask.py is where it should be:
Ingo> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         3547 May 24 17:27 /usr/bin/ask.py

Ingo> sendmail is running (chkconfig):
Ingo> sendmail       	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
Ingo> but there is NO executable sendmail anywhere. only sendmail.sendmail.
Ingo> guess the daemon knows that ... :-)
Ingo> do i even NEED sendmail. i just installed it know, thinking ask may need
Ingo> it, or the .forward mechanism may not work without ... ???

Ingo> and when i pipe some dead.letter file into ask.py it DOES show up in my
Ingo> mailbox.

Ingo> i use fetchmail to retrieve mails from the server:

Ingo> set daemon  60 
Ingo> poll        pollux.wzw.tum.de
Ingo> protocol    pop3
Ingo> user        ingo
Ingo> pass        xxxxxxxxx
Ingo> keep

Ingo> but all my mails are completely lost. not even a log file.
Ingo> as soon as i delete the .forward file, they come through, again.
Ingo> as soon as i put it back in, they disappear.

Ingo> what am i doing wrong ???

Ingo> 10000 thanks for any help. ask seems like such a good idea ...

Ingo> greetings

Ingo> ingo




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