Re: Info on IDA Sendmail kit / pathalias

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From: Peter Honeyman
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1987 03:47

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yeah, that's a small problem with sendmail: as delivered, it doesn't
allow you to run arbitrary programs/scripts on addresses.  frankly,
many people find it a lot easier to munge headers in c or sh than in
sendmail's rule language, possibly the most brain-damaged language ever
invented, yes, rob, even worse than postscript.

i suppose it's possible to make the local mailer a router that looks at
the address and passes the message back to sendmail ... maybe not.

i've seen sendmail hacks (from waterloo?) that let rewrite rules munge
addresses with $>program.

	peter

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Subject: Re: Info on IDA Sendmail kit / pathalias
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