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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Filtering mail into a named pipe Post 302422415 by dadoprso on Tuesday 18th of May 2010 10:16:13 AM
Old 05-18-2010
Code:
# .procmailrc
# routes incoming mail to appropriate mailboxes
PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail   # all mailboxes are in .mailspool/
DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail
LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail
SHELL=/bin/bash

Can I not set this to send mail to directly to a named pipe?
Like, make it /var/spool/mail : (pipe name) ?
Last edited by dadoprso; 05-18-2010 at 11:17 AM.. Reason: accidently made a frown face
 

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mail

mail(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands						  mail(1B)

NAME

       mail, Mail - interactive message processing system

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/ucb/mail ...

       /usr/ucb/Mail ...

DESCRIPTION

       /usr/ucb/mail and /usr/ucb/Mail are provided as links to /usr/bin/mailx. See mailx(1) for more information on the usage of these commands.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

   /usr/ucb/mail
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWscpu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

   /usr/ucb/Mail
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWscpu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       mailx(1),attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    19 Aug 1998 							  mail(1B)
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