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From: jimmy@pyrltd.UUCP (Jimmy Aitken)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Another Idea for ELM 2.2
Message-ID: <1199@pyrltd.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jun 89 16:45:02 GMT
Reply-To: jimmy@pyrltd.UUCP (Jimmy Aitken)
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One of the things that I and at least one other person I know use in
the standard Berkeley mail which isn't available with elm is the
possibility of creating an alias which is a pipe into a program which
does something to the message rather than mailing it off.  If you
specify a destination that starts with a pipe symbol and you pass it
off to sendmail, sendmail objects saying it's not allowed to deliver
to a process.  In general I would agree (especially if it's a
privilaged account), but since this is an alias that only I could use
(assuming the program isn't set-uid) so I can't forsee any more
problems than would occur with standard Berkeley mail.  I've not
looked at the code (not had enough time really), but I assume it
wouldn't be a complex change.

This is really a low priority enhancement request.  It just is a
little annoying that I have to use Berkeley mail for this and elm for
everything else.  If anyone can point out a way in which this can be
done under elm, I would be most interested.....

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