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Subject: Re: smail vs. sendmail
Keywords: smail piping
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Date: 8 Jan 89 02:47:45 GMT
References: <378@ispi.UUCP> <6618@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Reply-To: jon@bodedo.ucm.org (Jon Boede)
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In article <6618@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> wisner@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Bill Wisner) writes:
>On a more pragmatic level it [sendmail] has some very nifty aliasing
>features (like piping mail to a program or saving it in an arbitrarily
>named file) that are glaringly absent from Smail. Many sites will never
>need those features, but then, some will.

I've found that creating a paths entry like:

site.domain	| /usr/lib/mail/gateway %s

Works just fine for piping mail destined for a particular system through a
program on my machine.  Stuff going to a particular user (or daemon) I still
use the aliases file (this is under SCO XENIX) which supports the things you
mention.


Jon -- jon@bodedo.ucm.org

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