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Re: Can smail3.0 send stuff to programs?

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From: Anders Rolff
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 23:56
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rog@bongo.rtech.COM (Roger Taranto) writes:

>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?

Yepp.
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Subject: Re: Can smail3.0 send stuff to programs?
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