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Article #5117Re: Can smail3.0 send stuff to programs?
From: Bill Blue
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1989 04:45
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1989 04:45
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In article <25925CC6.9563@ateng.com> chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes: >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. :-) Maybe my smail 2.5 is different than everybody else's, but the above works just fine. In fact, you can do limited piping without even an alias by specifying things a certain way in the To: field. The smail 2.5 I'm using is off the net, with Chip's Xenix patches applied. --Bill
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!sdsu!crash!bblue From: bblue@crash.cts.com (Bill Blue) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Can smail3.0 send stuff to programs? Message-ID: <962@crash.cts.com> Date: 23 Dec 89 04:45:14 GMT References: <4349@rtech.rtech.com> <25925CC6.9563@ateng.com> Reply-To: bblue@crash.cts.com (Bill Blue) Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA Lines: 22