Subject: pipeing with a .foward file.

From: calfeld@eratosth (Chris Alfeld)
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 1994 21:17:42 GMT

This is kind of off the subject of pine but it still 
deals with mail and I figures it's more interesting then all the
unsubscribe messages this group gets. :)

In any case how do I use a .forward file to pipe my mail to a 
process?

For those of you who are going to tell me to look in the man pages
I have.  There is no .forward.5 or forward.5 on my system.  I've
also looked at mail and sendmail.

Thanks,

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-Chris 	([email-masked] [email-masked])

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From: "Sean Allen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 1994 22:52:23 -0400 (EDT)

Simply put the pipe char (|) at the top of the file followed by
    the name of the command to filter the mail through.  e.g.

| /usr/local/bin/filter

> also looked at mail and sendmail.

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From: Sean Allen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 1994 22:52:23 -0400 (EDT)

| /usr/local/bin/filter

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 1994 13:21:19 +0800 (TPE)

>     the name of the command to filter the mail through.  e.g.

	Be aware that some systems require this to be enclosed in quotes:
i.e.

"|/usr/local/bin/filter"

				Ed
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