[comp.mail.elm] Filter and sendmail

dsew@troi.cc.rochester.edu (David Sewell) (02/07/91)

A couple of times one user on my machine has received the following
error message when trying to send mail to me.  Obviously something in my
.forward file is causing the problem:

554 <| /usr/cif/bin/filter -o /dev/console>... Cannot mail directly to programs

So far as I know he is the *only* person to have had this happen; mail
both from local sources and off-site has been coming through filter just
fine.  Does anyone know the probable cause of this error message?

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David Sewell, English Dep't, University of Rochester, New York USA 
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