Re: [cobalt-users] formmail

[Michael Tubbe <mtubbe@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On April 27, 2002 04:19 pm, you wrote:
> David Lucas wrote:
> > ok, here is the question.
> > I have seen a lot lately on formmail.pl
> > I do not see a formmail on my Raq4
> > I do see a formail
> > Are they the same?
>
> I'd think not.
>
> Formmail (officially called "FormMail.pl" is NOT included on your RaQ by
> default; it's used by a lot of webhosting companies and webmasters as a
> formhandler.

To find more info on ForMail, type: 
  man formail 
at the command prompt.

The beginning goes like this:
 formail is a filter that can be used to force mail into mailbox format
etc.

As an example, I had to use formail to send a user's spool mail file to 
another address.  To do this, I executed:
 formail -s /path/to/sendmail user@xxxxxxxxxx  < spoolfile

(I searched the archives to find who to attribute this trick to, but I 
couldn't find who showed the info originally on this list -- thanks to 
whoever it was!)

--
Michael Tubbe