Specifically, I am attempting to get this to occur on either a chron or .forward-type event on delivery.  It's part of a mod for phpBB 2.0.11 or so to allow it to act as both a forum and a mailing list, and while the code for the .php to grab the e-mails from the lunarpages account works fine (heck, works great! - makes new subjects, keeps threads with hidden header variables...) I cannot get the .sh file to execute either on chron or on mail delivery, nor can I execute the php on either condition.

The syntax I was given was:

|/path/to/m2f/m2f_posting.sh

(or similar- don't have the filename in front of me)

To be added to a .forward script.  I looked at making an Exim compatable .forward, but I don't want to be filtering all of my e-mail, just a .forward file for this particular account alone.  

Besides which, I don't know if I'd be doing this correctly, as the chron at least informs me of : "Permission denied", while the .forward and forwarding attempts I've made simply die on the vine with no response.

I guess I really need some help with regards to Unix syntax and permissions, but technically this relates to phpBB.

Thanks in advance...


Pat Kelley

in general it seems correct, though I'm wondering why you aren't calling the php file directly? Also, I think the permission might need to be set to 755 instead of 775, which is the case with PHP files and such, not sure about the case with shell scripts...