jimmy@pyrltd.UUCP (Jimmy Aitken) (06/26/89)
One of the things that I and at least one other person I know use in
the standard Berkeley mail which isn't available with elm is the
possibility of creating an alias which is a pipe into a program which
does something to the message rather than mailing it off. If you
specify a destination that starts with a pipe symbol and you pass it
off to sendmail, sendmail objects saying it's not allowed to deliver
to a process. In general I would agree (especially if it's a
privilaged account), but since this is an alias that only I could use
(assuming the program isn't set-uid) so I can't forsee any more
problems than would occur with standard Berkeley mail. I've not
looked at the code (not had enough time really), but I assume it
wouldn't be a complex change.
This is really a low priority enhancement request. It just is a
little annoying that I have to use Berkeley mail for this and elm for
everything else. If anyone can point out a way in which this can be
done under elm, I would be most interested.....
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