I checked all the permissions and everything seems ok. this is truly baffling. I took a look at the code, and it's pretty clear that the only way that it doesn't work is if tmpfile() fails. I wrote this program to test tmpfile and fileno:

#include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h>

int main( void ) { FILE *stream; stream = tmpfile(); if( stream != NULL ) { printf( "File number is %d.\n", fileno( stream ) ); fclose( stream ); return EXIT_SUCCESS; } return EXIT_FAILURE; }

and it works perfectly, returning 3 everytime. For the life of me i can't figure out what it is.

I'm pondering just rebuilding it and upping the threshold for when it writes to a tmpfile.

Also, I am running it with courier. I read something about rather than piping the program into maildrop, courier can automagically pass it a handle to the mail in the queue. If so, how would i go about doing this? Right now I have

DEFAULTDELIVERY="| /usr/local/bin/maildrop"

I don't have a .courier file, and maildrop reads from /usr/local/etc/maildroprc

Thanks, Anoop

On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 11:06 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: