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Re: [cobalt-users] Sendmail problems.



On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Stuart Low wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Ok I have a client here who wants to be able to pipe a mailbox to a
> particular program (lets call it /home/site1/bobs-prog for now).
>
> Now, on a Cobalt RaQ4 how would this be done? I have tried modifying
> /etc/mail/aliases to read
>
> sb-admin:     "|/home/site1/bobs-prog"
>
> But the mail just bounces and I have a feeling the cobalt raq will kill it
> as soon as anything is done. Am I right in this assumption? If so, can it be
> done?
>
> Stuart
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Hello Stuart,

You have to add the name of your program to /etc/shells before sendmail
will use it. Just add line

/home/site1/bobs-prog

on a line by itself. You will have to be root to edit this file.

Eric