Re: [cobalt-users] Postmaster notify: unknown mailer error 13

["Greg Mosier" <Greg@xxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Daley Lay" <daley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Greg,
>
> it is just the normal msg...
>
> >    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > "|/usr/local/sbin/vacation.pl /var/vacation/micheal.msg
> > micheal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
> >     (expanded from: micheal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
> >
> >    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > Message delivered to mailing list <johng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cannot open vacation database: Permission denied
> > 554 "|/usr/local/sbin/vacation.pl /var/vacation/micheal.msg
> > micheal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"... unknown mailer error 13
>
> Pipe an email to it from shell and see what happens.  The error should be
> evident there.
>
> Just save the contents of an email with full headers on your hard drive in
> shell to myemail.eml and then use:
>
> cat myemail.eml |/usr/local/sbin/vacation.pl /var/vacation/micheal.msg
> micheal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> If that doesn't spit out the error for you, you'll have to debug the perl
> script by hand.
>
> HTH,
> Greg

Hmmm...  Could be that mail doesn't have access to run the script.  su to
mail and try it again.  I'd imagine this gives you the same Permission
Denied error.  You'll likely have to chown the script to mail.

HTH
Greg