Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!wugate!uunet!ateng!chip From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Smail, Aliases & Programs Keywords: smail alias Message-ID: <254733A5.10634@ateng.com> Date: 26 Oct 89 16:41:06 GMT References: <590@piglet.vision.UUCP> <974@becker.UUCP> Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL Lines: 17 According to bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker): >In article <590@piglet.vision.UUCP> chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies) writes: >|What I need (!!) [...] >| info-server | /some/program/or/other >|i.e. to have mail piped to a specified program. > > There is indeed a patch to smail 2.5 which permits > this. I'll try to persuade the author to allow it > to be posted here. I'm using it currently... Remember security, people. Do you always want all pipe aliases to be run as uucp or root? Think about it... -- You may redistribute this article only to those who may freely do likewise. Chip Salzenberg at A T Engineering; or "'Why do we post to Usenet?' Naturally, the answer is, 'To get a response.'" -- Brad "Flame Me" Templeton