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From: ray3rd@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ray E. Saddler III)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.mail
Subject: Processing mail; differences between SYSV & Berkeley
Keywords: help
Message-ID: <3432@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jul 90 19:48:45 GMT
Organization: Boeing Aerospace & Electronics, Seattle WA
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[posted for a coworker...I didn't have an answer for him]

In SysV mail, you can pipe a letter into a command or
script (with arguments!) as follows:

   | "scriptname arg1 arg2..."

The script would receive the body of the letter, and do
something wonderful and useful with it.  How do I do this
in Berkeley mail?  I have found a very inelegant, and
kludgey way, as follows:

   r                                     <reply to letter>
   ~f                                    <read in letter>
   ~| "scriptname arg1 arg2..."          <process letter>
   ~q                                    <cancel reply>

Surely Berkeley mail supplies a more elegant way of
piping than the ugly method shown above?

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