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From: David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au>
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> Hi, I noted from this list that one can forward a mail message to a perl
> script program in order to handle some event. But there is no detail.

/etc/aliases is your friend.


> I checked the mail and sendmail mannual but find nothing to help me.

Yup. aliases are very poorly documented. It is a pity for such a
useful thing. You alias an address to a program using the following
syntax:

name:	"|/path/to/program -program args"

e.g.

info:		"|/usr/libexec/sm.bin/mailserver -f info"
mailserv:	"|/usr/libexec/sm.bin/mailserver"

The '|' (pipe) character is the key, and don't forget the quotes.
Incoming mail is piped to the program via its standard input.

If you're running smrsh (which is more secure than using the
general shells and generally an advisable thing to do in most
cases) then the programs must be run out of /usr/libexec/sm.bin.

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