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From: tron@tolerant.com (Ron Karr)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Smail3.1 and Filter
Keywords: piping mail to filter
Message-ID: <1990Jul15.012254.10574@tolerant.com>
Date: 15 Jul 90 01:22:54 GMT
References: <1149@netwrx1.UUCP>
Reply-To: tron@tolsoft.UUCP (Ron Karr,,439,)
Organization: Tolerant Software
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In article <1149@netwrx1.UUCP> graham@netwrx1.UUCP (James Graham) writes:
>
>	I am using Smail3.1 patch level 18 on an AT&T 3B2 with SVR3.1. I
>am trying to use the "pipe" transport to utilize the "filter" program
>provided with ELM 2.3. It appears that when Smail locates the .forward
>file it executes the shell as the sender userid rather the the userid
>for which the filter is assigned. This causes problems. Any clues as to what my
>configuration error might be, I would appreciate any assistance.
>
> ....
>
>pipe:	driver = pipe,			# pipe message to another program
>	return_path, local, from, unix_from_hack;
>
>	cmd = "/bin/sh -c $user",	# send address to the Bourne Shell
>	parent_env,			# environment info from parent addr
>#	pipe_as_user,			# use user-id associated with address
>	umask = 0022,			# umask for child process
>	-log_output,			# do not log stdout/stderr
>	ignore_status,			# exit status may be bogus, ignore it
>	ignore_write_errors,		# ignore broken pipes

One problem could be that you turned off this capability by commenting
out the pipe_as_user attribute.  This is the attribute that tells smail3
to use the appropriate user of the .forward file as the user for executing
programs in the .forward file.
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