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1996-08-03 23:21:52

An fgrep caveat in my previous posting using fgrep to scan a reject
file, and file listed messages from domains and users in /dev/null ...

        John

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From: Scott Anguish <sanguish(_at_)digifix(_dot_)com>
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Subject: Re: Unidentified subject!
Date: Sun,  4 Aug 96 01:51:20 -0400

You might want to followup to your posting to the list about this, as I =
would have gotten burned bigtime if I hadn't taken that precaution...

Thanks for the answer, and the most useful recipe!


:-)

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Scott Anguish writes:
John
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      I tried this, and mistakenly had a blank line in my .reject file... =3D
everything was rejected....
=20
      Is this the case?  I fortunately had been sending to /test/file instead 
=
=3D
of /dev/null.. :-)


Yes, unfortunately, fgrep is not very smart, and there should be no null
lines ...

        John

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