Russell Nelson writes:
> Mirko Zeibig writes:
> > Hello,
> > I now use this alias-definition to post every mail to a list to a
> > newsgroup as well. Any ideas to do this more efficient?
> > Thanx
> > Mirko
> > ** /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-all **
> > | { echo "Newsgroups: local.announce"; cat - } | sed '/^Received:/d' |
> > sed '/^\ \ by\ unknown\ with\ SMTP/d' | rpost localhost -M
>
> You've already implemented this fairly programmer-efficiently. It
> works, doesn't it? So all the investment has already been made and
> now it's starting to pay that off. I'm sure it's run infrequently
> enough so that machine-efficiency is of no concern.
This approach will break if something is tweaked in the systems, headers
will look slightly differently, or someone happens to quote a message with
full headers in the body of the post. The sed will happily remove those.
