Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce D. Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: $HOME/.forward with smail 2.5
Message-ID: <75856@becker.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 91 03:53:36 GMT
References: <1991Feb2.162029.25229@sevihc.UUCP> <979@trac2000.ueci.com>
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <979@trac2000.ueci.com> das@trac2000.ueci.com (David Snyder) writes:
|In article <1991Feb2.162029.25229@sevihc.UUCP>, reso@sevihc.UUCP (Dennis Reso) writes:
|> Does smail2.5 support "|program" forwarding like sendmail?
|> When I do this (to Elm's "filter"), I get a bunch of "sh"
|> and "rmail" proccesses to the point of crippling my machine.
|> 
|I was told that smail2.5 doesn't support "|program" forwarding like sendmail.
|My solution (for my 3B1)... I downloaded sendmail from osu-cis!~/att7300 and
|configured smail2.5 to run with sendmail.  With sendmail I can now use elm's
|filter and also those wonderful vacation programs.

	There's a simple set of patches to smail 2.5
	which will permit pipes to programs in the
	alias file, as well as other enhancements...


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