Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:14:43 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Getting Perl scripts to work as mail filters Message-ID: <20021219081443.GB80493@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> 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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On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 01:13:17AM +0100, Mxsmanic wrote:
> What about appending directly to the mailbox file under /var/mail/$USER with
> the script? It looks like the format of the file is very simple. Why
> wouldn't that work? I've tried writing to it, but I can't, at least not
> when the script runs from the aliases file (works fine when I run it myself,
> though).
mail.local(8) is probably what you want to use to do that. However
your main problem will be getting sendmail to setuid() to the required
user before calling the mymail script.
Cheers,
Matthew
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