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Re: MMDF submit question

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From: Bill Irwin
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 23:29
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sanjay@usurp.calvin.edu (Sanjay Bhatia) writes:

|       I am getting some info from the general database where
|everything is stored.  The info is 1) message addressed to, 2) sent
|by, 3) Subject and 4) message body. I need to put this togther and
|send it out.  I thought of invoking
|"sendmail -t < file-where-info-is-stored", but am not sure if that is
|how to go about it.  we do not have a sendmail.cf file on this system.

If "/usr/lib/sendmail -t < file" doesn't work, then strip out the
"To:", "From:" and "Subject:" headers and do:

cat file | mail -s "The subject" recipient@remote.dom

If your MMDF is configured properly this should get out.
-- 
Bill Irwin     -      The Westrheim Group     -    Vancouver, BC, Canada
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uunet!twg!bill              604-431-9600 (voice) |     Your Computer  
bill@twg.bc.ca              604-430-4329 (fax)   |    Systems Partner
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From: bill@twg.bc.ca (Bill Irwin)
Subject: Re: MMDF submit question
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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 23:29:47 GMT
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