One caveat here: You'll need to make sure that sendmail is configured to
allow people to run arbitrary commands out of .forward.  By default,
sendmail is not configured to do this (for obvious security reasons).

Gabe

On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 09:29:26AM -0500, Mark K wrote:
> 
> Yup, that will work, like this:
> 
> --.forward--
> email at account1.com
> |/piped/bin/command
> localaccount  (sendmail knows not to loop it repeatedly)
> 
> (any combination of commands, each on a line, in the user's home dir)
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Andy Zbikowski wrote:
> 
> > Anyone know if it's possible to put more than one action in .forward? IE,
> > I'd like to have it send the message through vacation as well as forward the
> > message to another user. Right now I have procmail handling the forward,
> > just worndering if it could all be done in one place.
> > 
> > 
> 
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