On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Julian King wrote:
> As for how many arguments it
> needs to support, the answer is as many as people use - however only
> ones used by external programs to send mail, not things like -bd since
> it should never be daedmonised. From my personal experience of
> using sendmail in this fashion I doubt that there are more than about 10
> different styles of piping mail into it which are commonly used, but
> someone is bound to try and use the 11th.
Quite. I am forever learning about new ones. :-(
> Barring checks made by exim as to whether it can [e]setuid() itself
> I can probably use it as is, but it is sever overkill for what I was
> thinking of doing.
Indeed, I agree. I was just exploring how it *could* be used.
For what you want, you could almost do it with a shell script. :-)
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