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[Guest]

ive added a "peffisaur" user

ive sent an e-mail with a picture in from my phone,

i waited a few seconds and "recmail.log" appears in /tmp

recmail.log contains the following

[Peffis]

That looks...ehm...bad

It almost seems like the script is not parsed by perl at all but instead by some other command line interpreter. It actually looks very much like the script is parsed by sh instead of perl. I tried running it with "sh recmail.pl" and the output is similar (but not exactly like it) to yours. Are you running this on a windows machine? Or is there not a perl binary at /usr/bin/perl ?

If you log on the server and type "/home/peffisaur/recmail.pl", do you then get the same error message?

What system are you running on? What perl version do you have at /usr/bin/perl? (type "/usr/bin/perl -v" to find out).

My guess is that there is something broken with your perl. At least it seems like the script is parsed by sh or some other shell instead of perl which is very strange.

/S

[Guest]

ooh.

i chmodded the perl script +x and it worked fine, perhaps you'd like to include this in your future docs!

ty sorry for wasting time

[Guest]

oh and yes it was a debian linux server, running sendmail and procmail and perl v5.6.1. (incase anyone has the same probs)

[Peffis]

I see. I just thought about that. That perhaps if it's not executable it will get "sourced" instead and interpreted by the shell. So I went here to suggest that noticing you had already solved it.

Thanks for the info.

Cheers
Stefan