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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Smail, Aliases & Programs
Keywords: smail alias
Message-ID: <13074@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 28 Oct 89 17:14:09 GMT
References: <590@piglet.vision.UUCP> <974@becker.UUCP> <254733A5.10634@ateng.com>
Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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In article <254733A5.10634@ateng.com> chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>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.
...
>Remember security, people.  Do you always want all pipe aliases to be run
>as uucp or root?  Think about it...
...

Yes, indeed.

MMDF has the syntaxes

	name:	user-name|command		for pipes
	name:	user-name//path			for files

in its alias files.  That feature had been there for a looooong time.
I had suggested it to the authors of v2.5 and they liked it, but I
don't know if the ifnroamtion for passed on to the v3 authors.  Nor do
I know when v3+ will be appearing anywhere.
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