Hi there,

I am trying to pipe an e-mail to a CGI script by editing the etc/aliases file. I am adding the following to the file

support: "|/pathtoprogram/email.cgi"

After that I am executing the command newaliases, so that it reflects in the aliases.db. However, after some time the modification that I have made in aliases disappeared. David Copperfield or what?


Cheers for input.

Stuart

Do you have a built in system admin panel? I did this before on CPanel (not sure which version). Basically, I just set it up as a forward;

emailadd => | perl /full/path/to/script.cgi

Havn't done this in a while... so I can't actually remember if you need the "perl" bit.

Hope that helps.

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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Hi Andy,

thnaks again for your reply. I am on an interface called confixx. If I add anything else then an email address as a forwarder, the program tells me that the email address is invalid and rejects.
Did you ever try to modify the aliases file manually?

Stuart

Mmm.. that sucks :/


Afraid not. I try to do as much in the CP as possible... less chance of anything getting broken =)

Cheers

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I have it sorted now, so that the emails to a certain mail address get piped to the cgi script.
However, I am getting the following bounced e-mail:

<root@xyz.serverkompetenz.net>: Command died with status 1:
"/srv/www/htdocs/web1/html/cgi-bin/perlbill/include/lib/email.cgi"

I am using sendmail on Suse. The script that I am forwarding the mails to is attached.

Stuart