Piping Mail with Exim: Only Works Locally

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Published on 2009-06-27T05:17:45Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 2:03 UTC
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Whenever I send an email to my catchall alias via SSH (i.e., locally), Exim successfully pipes the e-mail to a PHP script, as I told it to do. However, when I try to send an e-mail to my catchall alias via my e-mail client (i.e., remotely), Exim won't pipe the e-mail. Any ideas?

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