have not yet
found syntax for pipe in a .forward. Can you help me with that?
When ever I leave the office for a long time, I install
a .forward file that both keeps a copy in my mail spool file
and also pipes it through an autoreply "I'm not here" process.
To do that, the .forward file looks like this:
\graff, "|/usr/bin/vacation graff"
I'm not sure what will happen if the process crashes.
I do know that if the mode on .forward isn't rw-r--r--,
my mail server will bounce all mail sent to graff, 'cuz
any other mode is either unworkable or a nasty security
no-no. I'm not sure, but I might expect it to look up the
pipeline process too, to make sure it's not an open door.
(Presumably, if I only want the mail to go to the
process, I just leave off the first part of the line.)
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As you can probably infer from graff's post, the trick is to quote the pipe command. Here's an old .forward of mine:"| /usr/lib/nmh/slocal -user sfink"
But the exact syntax is really up to the MTA. This should work with sendmail. | [reply]
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