.forward breaks going from Solaris 2.3 to Solaris 2.5

by card.. » Sat, 23 Sep 1995 04:00:00

The user account "foo" has a .forward which is the following:

"|cat >> /net/host2/export/home/foo/Archive"

This appends all of foo's mail to Archive which lives in foo's account.
This scheme works great under Solaris 2.3, however it seems to have broken
when mailing from a Solaris 2.5 machine. Here is the error message
from that 2.5 machine:

----- The following addresses had delivery problems -----
"|cat >> /net/host2/export/home/foo/Archive" (unrecoverable error)
(expanded from: foo)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 /home/foo/.forward: line 1: "|cat >> /net/host2/export/home/foo/Archive"...
Address foo is unsafe for mailing to programs

Does anyone know how I can adjust this to work from a 2.5 machine?

Thanks very much,

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