On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:51:03AM -0700, reklar Last Name wrote:
> >
> > I'd also be interested in hearing about an alternative.
> > Some sys admins setup sendmail so that it is not possible
> > to spawn processes such as procmail. In that case I'd
> > like to know if there is a way to use pine and have some
> > addon program or script which would be able effectively
> > filter mail.
>
> From the procmail man page:-
>
> Instead of using the system provided invocation of proc-
> mail when mail arrives, you can control the invocation of
> procmail yourself. In this case your $HOME/.forward (be-
> ware, it has to be world readable) file should contain the
> line below. Be sure to include the single and double
> quotes, and unless you know your site to be running smrsh
> (the SendMail Restricted SHell), it must be an absolute
> path.
>
> "|exec /usr/bin/procmail"
>
> Thus if you compile yourself a copy of procmail and invoke it as
> above it will appear to work exactly the same as when procmail is
> invoked directly from sendmail.
>
> --
> Chris Green
Uh, right. The problem is that you can configure sendmail to
only allow certain processes to be invoked period. If
pathname/procmail isn't one of those allowed processes, (and
it isn't in my case) this won't work. For instance our sys admin
only allows mail to be forwarded to a mailbox...
|exec process
in the .forward won't work for any process...
peace,
joe.
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