Saturday, April 06, 2002, 12:10:24 AM, you wrote: > I'm trying to set up an Alaises piped to a program. The help file says > that a *.tmp file is sent to the program. I am wondering if the actual > message is sent for processing or if just an unknown *.tmp file is.
Huh? The TMP file whose name is passed has roughly the same contents (message header + body) as the D file generated for each SMTP message. There is no "actual message," since the message is by definition leaving the SMTP sphere. > I am wanting to know if anyone has used this feature with a program, > like word, and any advice you may have. I have used the feature extensively with VBScript and compiled EXEs. But like Word? Please tell me you're not trying to use Word programmatically on a production mail server, without even some low-level OLE to take some of the processing heat off... What exactly is your application? Reply off-list if you want to keep that private. -Sandy Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
