On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 02:08:19PM +0100, Alex Suzuki wrote: | > It says that \246/usr/bin/procmail wasn't found. That's the problem. | > Now the question becomes, why was it looking for that?, what is that | > \246 character doing? Usually if there is not a preceding '0' the | > number is decimal, otherwise octal. That character, in latin1, is an | > umluat (an 'o' with two dots above it) if '\246' is read as decimal, | > or it is a vertical bar with a break in it if '\246' is read as octal. | > | > I notice that the character following the space after the '==' is not | > a regular pipe character. It is 0xa6, which looks very much like a | > pipe in latin1 or utf-8. However a regular pipe character, |, is | > 0x7c. 0xa6 is not part of the US-ASCII character set. I bet this is | > where your problem is. Now to check your config file : | | Strange enough, after toying around (calling eximconfig a thousand | times), deleting and recreating ~/.forward and ~/.procmailrc files it | worked again.
Cool, though it is really annoying (at least to me) when a problem vanishes with no reason. | I guess some stupid character in a config file messed it all up. I think so too. Say, I just noticed that in your signature you have those characters that are not the ASCII '|'. In fact, the first one shows up as 0xc2 0xa6 in vim now (I set it to use latin1 for emails, though it defaults to utf-8). It seems that the message, as you sent it, was utf-8. I wonder if you had some sort of locale settings in an environment that caused eximconfig or exim to become confused? -D -- It took the computational power of three Commodore 64s to fly to the moon. It takes at least a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here.
