> On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Dan Muey wrote:
>
> > So I can do
> > # Exim Filter
> > pipe "/path/to/prog email@??? |
> > /local/delivery/program/like/procmail/or/safecat/etc ARG ARG" seen
> > finish
>
> Not quite. Exim does not run pipes via a shell by default. If
> you want to use shell features, such as piping to another
> process - as you have done there - you must call a shell
> explicitly by something like
>
> pipe "/bin/sh -c '......'"
Right! Got it!
>
> > And as long as "local_delivery_program_like_procmail_etc" can write
> > it's STDIN to a user's inbox then the output of
> /path/to/prog will be
> > delivered to the user's inbox, and if /path/to/prog does
> exit(0); then
> > the message is dropped Out of the universe forever, is this
> thinking
> > correct?
>
> Yes. Well, I suppose so - in the latter case the local
> delivery program will read an empty stdin. Assuming it then
> does nothing and ends successfully, then it will be as you
> say. If it grumbles because it hasn't got any input, and ends
> with an error code, then the whole thing will end with an error code.
>
Good point.
Thanks for your time Philip I really appreciate it!
Have a good one!
Dan
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