Aloha, David:
Thanks for that tip... but the "(text file + shelling to sendmail)"
cat someFoo.txt | sendmail etc.
is what we use now, and honestly we are shooting in the dark as to
when and why a CRLF is inserted into a line that is longer than 1024
characters. The attempt to use echo makes a big assumption (possibly
wrong) that it would handle long lines without that CRLF being
introduced... but without *any* line delimiters at all from echo,
it's a futile attempt to test for an unknown result.
I'll look at postalias... but as often happens with such things,--
where lo-level programming eats so much time for so little result,
and you end up going back to find an xTalk solution-- I am about
ready to "move up" and use Shao's SMTP libs... If I had started this
whole foray with that and ditched the shell thing completely last
week, I would probably be home free already...and I would have a grip
on a nice tool box I can use for other projects...
Anyway, I think we can let this thread die for now..
Thanks
Sivakatirswami
On Sep 15, 2005, at 4:40 AM, david bovill wrote:
My suggestion would be to go with the (text file + shelling to
sendmail) combination, and not the (shell + echo + pipe)
combination to get variables into anything but the simplest stuff.
I have not done this with sendmail but looking at the man page,
would indicate that you need to use the :
Postfix sendmail relies on the postdrop(1) command to create
a queue file in the maildrop directory.
Which you can find at:
/var/spool/postfix, mail queue
However as this says use postdrop which in return takes input from
STDIN you are back to square one.
newaliases
Initialize the alias database. If no input file
is specified
(with the -oA option, see below), the program
processes the
file(s) specified with the alias_database
configuration parame-
ter. If no alias database type is specified, the
program uses
the type specified with the default_database_type
configuration
parameter. This mode of operation is implemented by
running the
postalias(1) command.
Where:
-oAalias_database
Non-default alias database. Specify pathname or
type:pathname.
See postalias(1) for details.
So this is not looking simple:) The postalias command seems to be
the thing you need to create the queue files in the maildrop
directory (from files):
POSTALIAS(1)
POSTALIAS(1)
NAME
postalias - Postfix alias database maintenance
SYNOPSIS
postalias [-Nfinoprvw] [-c config_dir] [-d key] [-q key]
[file_type:]file_name ...
So by issuing a series of simple commands passing the right
fileNames you should get the result you want? NB ie use merge() to
create the right shell commands...
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