RE: [Sheflug] SENDMAIL help :-(

["Chris J" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And Lo! The Great Prophet " Lance Davis" uttered these words of wisdom...
>
> You need to use procmail, and the .procmailrc file.
>
> .forward only allows you to forward mail.
>

Not so. One server I have at work has the following entry in my .forward:

"|/etc/smrsh/pegmail -n cjohnson"

[pegmail is a little script I wrote that delivers mail to my pegasus mail
spool]. As far as sendmail is concerned, it can run programs using that
syntax. Yes, you will probably have to put it the line in quotes, as I have
done above. Sendmail may also require the program you want to run to live in
a certain directory (depending on configuration). On this Linux box,
programs for .forward must live, or at least be linked in, /etc/smrsh. This
prevents people executing arbitary programs.

Further, the classical UNIX program "vacation" has always ran out of
.forward :)

Chris...

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