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Re: Deliver to scripts...
On Sun, 19 Feb 1995, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> > I've setup an alias to deliver mail to a script. When I send mail to
> > it, the script is run, but scheduler complains about "Can't open fd", and
> > tries to deliver again and again. What does a script need to do in order
> > to properly "accept" mail?
>
> I do it regularly -- mailserver@nic.funet.fi is one example.
>
> Is the complaint: "cannot open fd %d for w." ?
> (Found in scheduler/transport.c, and is only existence of
> "open fd" anywhere in the transport-side programs.)
Actually, the error is probably from mailbox, as mailq reports the
following:
local/bounce-back:
373: cannot fdopen(8) (retry in 45s, expires in 2h57m24s)
Tom