Re: SRS and Sendmail aliases

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Graham Murray wrote:

> A couple of the local users here are actually off-site so mail is
> forwarded to them using the sendmail aliases mechanism. As we run SPF
> I would also like to implement SRS for these forwarded users. Looking
> at "http://spf.pobox.com/srs.html" an example shows the use of
>  "|/usr/bin/srs ....."
> in a .forward file and I believe that the syntax of the .forward and
> aliases files are the same.
> 
> I have tried this but it does not work as sendmail attempts to pipe
> the mail through stdin of the program specified in the aliases file,
> and /usr/bin/srs does not expect this but simply generates the new
> envelope-from header.
> 
> What is the best way of doing this? 

I suspect that the best way of doing it is for me to implement a
/usr/bin/srs-forward which does actually behave as suggested by that
document. I will do so in the next day or two and release it with version
0.31 of the software.

Thank you for your suggestion.

S.

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