Date: 18 Dec 2002 17:04:50 -0800 From: Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@artlogix.com> To: "Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Getting Perl scripts to work as mail filters Message-ID: <86isxqrf7x.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> In-Reply-To: <OE51Z9rWjAKYVpMmOlb00005e1f@hotmail.com> References: <NCBBIAMNAKDKFJIIGNPKGEGLKHAA.barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com> <OE31qwso6EsEWo2q0LZ00004187@hotmail.com> <200212182250.GBIMOPT39354@asarian-host.net> <OE51Z9rWjAKYVpMmOlb00005e1f@hotmail.com>
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"Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> writes: | What about appending directly to the mailbox file under /var/mail/$USER with | the script? I'd recommend against that. Using the sendmail interface is just as easy programmatically as appending it to /var/mail/whatever, plus you don't run into any messy issues with lockfiles and such. Just use sendmail; it's already there. | Procmail is exactly the sort of bloated tool that I'm trying to avoid. Well, for this, you don't need procmail, especially if you have a dedicated alias for this. | I don't know that calling sendmail again would be _that_ hard. After all, | I'm mostly just copying the input to the output. I guess all I'd have to do | would be to change the recipient address to avoid a loop (?). Right? Can't | I just leave all the headers intact otherwise? Absolutely; in fact, that's the best solution to the problem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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