Two things - the | character should be inside the quotes. And, take a look at this: http://forum.symfony-project.org/index.php/m/26063/
for discussion on getting a similar setup running (postfix needs to be delivering as a user other than nobody). --Matt Jones On May 18, 4:38 pm, rcs <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. I have been banging my head against the wall for two days. > Hoping you can help; this isn't strictly a rails problem, but > something I'm encountering in trying to get rails and postfix to work > together. > > I want to automate dealing with bounced messages, so I have bounced > emails bounce back to "[email protected]." > > I want to do this in my /etc/aliases file: > > bounces: | "RAILS_ENV=production /usr/bin/ruby /home/rails/appname/ > current/script/runner 'BouncedEmail.receive(STDIN.read)' > > so that I can process the email in rails. > > But it's not working, and I don't know what I'm doing wrong, so I > tried the following: > If I have "bounces: root", then the email gets properly directed to > root's email folder fine, so the alias stuff should be working, but > piping to a trivial command doesn't seem to work at all. If I do > > bounces: | "echo 'hi' > /tmp/test" > > I see nothing when I send an email to bounces. > > Anybody have any ideas? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
