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From: chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Can I use the "filter" program?  Probably.
Keywords: elm filter smail sendmail
Message-ID: <1989Jun7.104600.25715@ateng.ateng.com>
Date: 7 Jun 89 14:46:00 GMT
References: <778@cjsa.WA.COM> <1989Jun1.193715.908@ateng.ateng.com> <14320@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <259@ethz-inf.UUCP>
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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According to wyle@inf.ethz.ch (Mitchell Wyle):
>If [the original poster] wants smail to forward the messages for
>him, all he needs is a .forward file.

Unfortunately, Smail 2.5 does >not< support "|program" aliases, whether in
.forward files or elsewhere.  Smail 3.1 does; in fact, my ".forward" file
contains "|/usr/bin/deliver chip".

If you configure Smail 2.5 to use deliver for local mail (the LMAIL macro),
then your delivery files (being shell scripts) can do whatever you like with
incoming mail when it arrives.
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