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From: bblue@crash.cts.com (Bill Blue)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Can smail3.0 send stuff to programs?
Message-ID: <962@crash.cts.com>
Date: 23 Dec 89 04:45:14 GMT
References: <4349@rtech.rtech.com> <25925CC6.9563@ateng.com>
Reply-To: bblue@crash.cts.com (Bill Blue)
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
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In article <25925CC6.9563@ateng.com> chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>According to rog@bongo.rtech.COM (Roger Taranto):
>>In the sendmail alias file, you can mail to programs by puting in an 
>>alias with a pipe, e.g.,
>>foo:	"| cat >> /usr/adm/foo"
>>
>>However, you cannot do this with smail2.5.  Has this capability been
>>added to smail3.0?
>
>Yes.
>
>However, if you already have Smail 2.5, and pipe aliases are the Feature
>You Need, then get Deliver 2.0 and you'll be in hog heaven.  Available at
>finer archive sites everywhere.  :-)

Maybe my smail 2.5 is different than everybody else's, but the above
works just fine.  In fact, you can do limited piping without even
an alias by specifying things a certain way in the To: field.  

The smail 2.5 I'm using is off the net, with Chip's Xenix patches applied.

--Bill