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I'm running into an issue trying to get pipe forwarding working on postfix. Rather than running the script I'm intending to run, it's appending to my script. Testing on other servers this seems to work fine which leads me to believe this is a configuration error I can't seem to find in my main.cf.

I did some searches and came up with being told I should add the F=| flag to my delivery agent but I'm unsure where I should be adding this.

Thanks!

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  • Wow, what a bad question. Yes it is a configuration problem. Looking at your .forward file shows the error!
    – mailq
    Dec 16, 2011 at 18:29
  • @mailq Uh.. did Justin post his .forward somewhere? [Not trolling]
    – jade
    Dec 16, 2011 at 18:38
  • But me. I was trolling. It should be ironic. How should we look into an issue by only saying "it doesn't work".
    – mailq
    Dec 16, 2011 at 18:40
  • Not a bad question, the .forward file is fine as it works on other servers. Bad assumption is more like it. If the forward file was bad, it wouldn't be writing to the file. In this case, my mail message is being appended to /home/username/email-filter.php. Just to appease though, here's my .forward file | /usr/bin/php /home/username/email-filter.php
    – Justin
    Dec 16, 2011 at 18:50

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I think it depends on the allow_mail_to_commands configuration option. In our systems, we have it set to alias, forward (the default?) which allows delivery to commands to be specified in system-wide alias files and ~/.forward files.

You can run postconf to see what Postfix thinks your configuration is. If allow_mail_to_commands is set to something else, changing it in your main.cf might be all you need. Otherwise, could you post a (redacted, if you prefer) version of your main.cf?

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