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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: full description of .forward
Message-ID: <1990Nov22.151709.12767@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 22 Nov 90 15:17:09 GMT
References: <1990Oct29.230614.4328@mp.cs.niu.edu> <6931@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <6306@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
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In article <6306@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> Michael Barnett writes:
>What about running shell scripts instead of programs from the .forward file?
>I have tried this but have had no success at all.  Can someone please tell
>me if this is possible at all.
>-- 

 Of course.  In fact I would guess that most programs run from .forward
are shell scripts.

 In a standard setup, the program is run with: /bin/sh -c "command"
Check the definition of the 'prog' mailer in sendmail.cf to be sure.
As long as the script is valid for the shell, and DOES NOT depend on
any environment variables being preset, it should work.  (Best you
define PATH as the first statement of the script).

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115.                                  +1-815-753-6940