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From: swood@vela.acs.oakland.edu ( EVENSONG)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: filter-rules and exec
Message-ID: <3806@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 12 Nov 90 02:43:40 GMT
Reply-To: swood@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Scott Wood - EVENSONG)
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI
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I have been trying to use the filter-rules in elm to send my mail back out
to a user group.  I was told that I could not simply do a

if (suject contains 'stug') then forward stuga

as the filters would be executed by root, and the mailer would not recognize
the alias stuga.  So I started saving to a file, and running a shell program
to remail it.  I would like to however use the exec command in the filters to
remail the messages as they arrive, as that would allow for a much more 
efficient mailing list.  The docs say that the exec will execute a program 
using the message as input, but as of yet, I have been unable to figure out
how the message has to be handled to be redirected to mail.  I have already 
got the first portion of a shell script written to set all the environment
variable for root so that my aliases will be used, but I need to know
what the heart of the program must do to mail the message (input) out to 
the alias

swood

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