Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!mhres!jv From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Smail, Aliases & Programs Message-ID: Date: 27 Oct 89 18:08:40 GMT References: <590@piglet.vision.UUCP> <974@becker.UUCP> <9687@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> Sender: jv@mhres.mh.nl Organization: Multihouse Gouda, the Netherlands Lines: 32 In-reply-to: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us's message of 26 Oct 89 18:06:20 GMT In article <590@piglet.vision.UUCP> chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies) writes: Chris> What I need (!!) [...] Chris> info-server | /some/program/or/other Chris> i.e. to have mail piped to a specified program. According to bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker): Bruce> There is indeed a patch to smail 2.5 which permits Bruce> this. I'll try to persuade the author to allow it Bruce> to be posted here. I'm using it currently.. In article <254733A5.10634@ateng.com> chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes: Chip> Remember security, people. Do you always want all pipe aliases to be run Chip> as uucp or root? Think about it... In article <9687@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes: Jon> If you care about security, don't use it. Use deliver or the lmail that Jon> I wrote. Are you all talking about the same patch to Smail2.5? I know several of them (some of them are insecure, others aren't). Johan -- Johan Vromans jv@mh.nl via internet backbones Multihouse Automatisering bv uucp: ..!{uunet,hp4nl}!mh.nl!jv Doesburgweg 7, 2803 PL Gouda, The Netherlands phone/fax: +31 1820 62944/62500 ------------------------ "Arms are made for hugging" -------------------------