dave@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (David A Rasmussen) (02/23/89)
I have been playing with a program called filter, that is distributed with
the Elm mailer. Filter allows one to write macros to do things with incoming
mail, which you pipe through it via the .forward file:
"|/usr/csd/stf/dave/bin/filter"
Now, I notice that if I run with the above .forward file, and someone
else runs with the same .forward file, and we are both on a local mailing
list, that only the first person on the list gets the mail. Is this a
sendmail feature? :-(
I have kludged a way around this by adding a dummy argument to the filter
program, the last argument being a user's login. This being unique, sendmail
delivers to all recipients (unless someone is stupid enough to copy a
.forward file verbatim (hmmm, I could cause someone else all kinds of
trouble with a fake .forward file if I were on their list ... hmmmm)
Any suggestions?
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