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Date:      Sun, 5 Jan 2003 16:16:22 +0100
From:      Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>
To:        Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20030105151622.GC669@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20030104033246.GC12462@wantadilla.lemis.com>
References:  <3E0DBCFC.5040907@quadtelecom.com> <5.1.1.6.2.20021228111607.0243f108@mail.go2france.com> <20021229002511.GD92510@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021229174612.GR348@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20021230005622.GE19243@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030102154044.GK348@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20030102155305.GL348@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20030104033246.GC12462@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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# grog@FreeBSD.org / 2003-01-04 14:02:46 +1030:
> On Thursday,  2 January 2003 at 16:53:05 +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> >     plus, you stuff the output in $myfile, and get the input from it as
> >     well. How's that supposed to work? :)
> 
> Heh.  You're looking at this section, no doubt:
> 
>   cat > $myfile
>   server=`egrep -i < $myfile "In:  [HE][HE]LO"|sed 's/^.*LO *//' `
>   if [ "$server" = "" ]; then
>     server=`egrep -i < $myfile "^Subject.*errors from "|sed 's/^Subject.*errors from //; s:\[.*::g' `
>   fi
> 
> Confusing, isn't it?  The thing is, this program is a filter.  The
> first line copies stdin to $myfile for future (multiple) readings.  If
> it weren't a filter, the cat command would still read from stdin, so
> if it were a terminal, it would just appear to hang.

    Ok, so you pipe the Postfix-generated message into B which slurps it
    into $myfile and that is where you access it... I'm just a luser, so
    excuse me if this is nonsense, but do you do that because stdin is
    not seekable?

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