On Mon, 8 May 2000, Bob Billson wrote:
> G'day all... I have a few perl scripts on my system originally written for
> sendmail. I'm trying to tweak them for exim. I'm stuck on sendmail's -U
> command line option. There doesn't seem to be a documented direct equivalent
> in exim.
>
> According to sendmail's man page, -U means: "Initial (user) submission. This
> should always be set when called from a user agent such as Mail or exmh and
> never be set when called by a network delivery agent such as rmail."
>
> The scripts I'm tweaking, have code along the lines of:
>
> ( echo "To: $NOTIFY_ADMIN"; \
> echo "From: foo@bar"; \
> echo "Subject: something"; \
> echo ""; \
> echo "some output from somewhere"; \
> ) | $SENDMAIL -U $NOTIFY_ADMIN
>
> It appears I should be able to replace the last line above with:
>
> ) | $SENDMAIL -t
>
> Where $SENDMAIL points to exim. Is there some reason this will break
> something? Thanks for help.
I have no idea what -U accomplishes, but personally, I'd replace that
entire this with an smtp session like the following:
(
echo "HELO localhost"; \
echo "MAIL FROM: <foo@bar>"; \
echo "RCPT TO: <$NOTIFY_ADMIN>"; \
echo "DATA"; \
echo "To: $NOTIFY_ADMIN"; \
echo "From: <foo@bar>;" \
echo "Subject: something"; \
echo ""; \
echo "some output from somewhere"; \
) | exim -bs
>
> bob
>
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