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Feedback wanted !

Authored by: krichtof on Tuesday, August 10 2004 @ 04:14 pm EDT

Hi
Don't hesitate to tell me what you want about this add-on ! If you have problems, if it works, if you use this add-on, I would really appreciate your feedback ;-)

Feedback wanted !

Authored by: greenhil on Wednesday, August 11 2004 @ 09:26 am EDT

great idea - i have a multi domain hosting acct with autothemeshosting - george over there did the install for me since they do not give me access to the etc/ directory...

when i try i though i get this email error under returned mail:
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

pipe to |/home/greenhil/public_html/godekalb-com/publishbymail.php
generated by submit@godekalb.com
local delivery failed

this is the original msg back from george , followed by his reply when i informed him of the error fyi:
The php file is in '/home/greenhil/public_html/godekalb-com' so don't delete it.

The aliases file looks like this:

submit@godekalb.com: "|/home/greenhil/public_html/godekalb-com/publishbymail.php"

reply:
We will need more info from the developer of the script as to how to set this up. Does it come with support or a support forum? The instructions provided might work on a dedicated server box but won't work on cPanel.

thanks!!

Feedback wanted !

Authored by: krichtof on Wednesday, August 11 2004 @ 10:16 pm EDT

Hello greenhil

Thanks for your interest !
Maybe your problem is because smrsh.
From man smrsh :
"smrsh sharply limits the commands that can be run using the ``|program'' syntax of sendmail in order to improve the over all security of your system. Briefly, smrsh limits programs to be in a single directory, by default /etc/smrsh"

Try to put publishbymail.php inside the /etc/smrsh directory. In your /etc/aliases file, you can just write the php filename without the absolute path :
submit@godekalb.com: |publishbymail.php

I hope it will solve your problem ...

kRichtoF

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