I think the other alternative means to forward your mail to
an account on a machine that doesn't have the bug and you can
have procmail in your .forward. The .forward to accomplish this
forwarding is just a line with the address of the other acccount
on the other machine.
A 3rd solution is to get the admin to get a patch from the vendor
for the current sendmail you have. This would be an option for
them that is much less of a problem for the admin than upgrading
the version of sendmail.
I am in the situation described in the FAQ:
14. When sending mail to someone with procmail in his/her .forward I sometim
es
get back an error saying: "Cannot mail directly to programs."
There are two solutions offered, the first (obviously) is to upgrade the
version of sendmail. Unfortunately, our rather shortsighted admin wont do
this, the other alternative is to "make sure that your sendmail always
forwards to a mailserver first". How is this done?
Regards,
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