Re: installation
"Ingo P. Korndoerfer" <[email protected]>
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nah ... i have tried that too, before. then in found this somewhere.
does not make any difference ...
but i'll put the quotes as you say anyways, since that's what's in the
docu ...
...
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Paul Gleave wrote:
> 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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Ingo P. Korndoerfer
Dept. of Biological Chemistry
Technische Universitaet Muenchen
An der Saatzucht 5
D-85350 Freising Weihenstephan
phone : +49 (8161) 71-3255 (desk)
+49 (8161) 71-5167 (computing)
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