I finally got it to work by piping to sendmail. Seems to be adequate for what I want to do.
Now all I have to do is design my patented, foolproof methodology for distinguishing spam from real mail so that I can encode the rules in the script. There must be a way! Also, this may allow me to do something about getting rid of HTML in mail, which I can't stand. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Seaman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 09:14 Subject: Re: Getting Perl scripts to work as mail filters > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 01:13:17AM +0100, Mxsmanic wrote: > > What about appending directly to the mailbox file under /var/mail/$USER with > > the script? It looks like the format of the file is very simple. Why > > wouldn't that work? I've tried writing to it, but I can't, at least not > > when the script runs from the aliases file (works fine when I run it myself, > > though). > > mail.local(8) is probably what you want to use to do that. However > your main problem will be getting sendmail to setuid() to the required > user before calling the mymail script. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks > Savill Way > Marlow > Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
