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Re: Can smail3.0 send stuff to programs?

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From: Chip Salzenberg
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 16:56
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According to rog@bongo.rtech.COM (Roger Taranto):
>In the sendmail alias file, you can mail to programs by puting in an 
>alias with a pipe, e.g.,
>foo:	"| cat >> /usr/adm/foo"
>
>However, you cannot do this with smail2.5.  Has this capability been
>added to smail3.0?

Yes.

However, if you already have Smail 2.5, and pipe aliases are the Feature
You Need, then get Deliver 2.0 and you'll be in hog heaven.  Available at
finer archive sites everywhere.  :-)
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From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
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Subject: Re: Can smail3.0 send stuff to programs?
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Date: 22 Dec 89 16:56:37 GMT
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