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Re: shell for ~/.forward

1998-05-04 08:56:48
On Sun, 3 May 1998, David W. Tamkin wrote:

dattier> But procmail cannot select the shell used to read your
dattier> .forward, as it is read before procmail is invoked if you need
dattier> to use a .forward to call procmail.  That shell choice is
dattier> hard-coded into the MTA (or the LDA?) at compilation time. 

At least with sendmail (which is a safe assumption, since arbitrary MTAs
need not honor .forward at all), it is not hard-coded but set by the P=
equate in the Mprog line of sendmail.cf.

Regards,
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