Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!dkuug!freja.diku.dk!rimfaxe.diku.dk!carllp From: carllp@rimfaxe.diku.dk (Carl-Lykke Pedersen) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: full description of .forward Message-ID: <1990Oct30.091341.24563@diku.dk> Date: 30 Oct 90 09:13:41 GMT References: <1990Oct29.230614.4328@mp.cs.niu.edu> Sender: news@diku.dk (The Netnews System) Distribution: comp Organization: Department Of Computer Science, University Of Copenhagen Lines: 21 rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: > This means that everything following the '|' is just fed as an > argument to /bin/sh -c > > In other words, any string valid for the -c option of /bin/sh should be > ok. As long as the command is quoted with ", the actual details of what is > in the command are not parsed by sendmail, but just fed directly to the > shell. Note that sendmail may convert the string to lowercase, before feeding it to /bin/sh. It doesn't happen in all versions, but we have had problems with it. Regards Carl-Lykke -- Carl-Lykke Pedersen (System Administrator) Email: carllp@diku.dk DIKU (Dept. Comp. Sci. Univ. Copenhagen) Fax: +45 31 39 02 21 Universitetsparken 1 DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark