Hello all, thanks for the help so far setting up my FC2 system.
Sendmail is now up and working great. I can send and receive mail on
my server.
My next task is that I want e-mail sent to a certain address to
redirect to a script. Specifically this is for BigBrother network
monitoring. Mail sent to bb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx should get
redirected to a script /opt/bb/bin/bb-mailack.sh.
So I was told that all I had to do is put a .forward file in /home/bb
and use the .forward file to call the script.
But that wasn't working. I did some more research, and read that
sendmail (recent versions) won't execute scripts. Someone told me me
that I could fix this with smrsh. I put a link in /etc/smrsh to point
to /opt/bb/bin/bb-mailack.sh. So now my .forward file calls
/etc/smrsh/bb-mailack.sh. It has execute permissions.
But it still doesnt seem to fire off that script when my bb account
receives e-mail. It just goes to /var/spool/mail/bb.
In conversation with some folks here they also mentioned that:
-I may have to use an alias, not a .forward
-I may have to install procmail
But I guess that's where I get lost. Not sure how to use an alias
(limited sendmail experience), and no idea how procmail would need to
fit in.
Any advice? Thanks as always,
Shane
