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jeff@cjsa.WA.COM (Jeffery Small) writes:

>Thanks to everyone who suggested using "deliver" to solve my mail forwarding
>problem.

>In article <259@ethz-inf.UUCP>, wyle@inf.ethz.ch (Mitchell Wyle) writes:
>> 
>> BTW:  I recommend that Jeff use the "forward" system which comes with elm.
>>       I think smail will read his .forward file to start elm's filter
>>       program.
>> 
>Just as a point of clarification, my copy of smail 2.5 does not mention or
>appear to support the .forward mechanism of sendmail.  I have heard that this
>capability will be included in smail 3.x whenever that is released from 
>beta testing.

I have realised that I will never succed to convince my company that they
should change mailer and use smail and deliver; but still I want to use
the filter program.

Many mailers support a pipe feature in the aliases file -
lines with a syntax like :

tpo	|some-kind-of-program

unfortunately this means that the filter program will be executed by
the user that sends the mail, which means that filter cannot determine
the HOME directory of the reciever.

To solve this problem I have made a small patch in filter, so the user
id can be specified as parameter

     filter -utpo

I'm willing to post the patch if it has any interrest.

/Thomas
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Thomas P.S. Olesen                               Dansk Data Elektronik A/S
E-mail: ..!uunet!mcvax!dkuug!dde!tpo             System Software Department
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