Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!gatech!galbp!wittsend.lbp.harris.com!mhw From: mhw@wittsend.lbp.harris.com (Michael H. Warfield (Mike)) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Smail 3.0 ??? Message-ID: <8765@galbp.LBP.HARRIS.COM> Date: 26 Sep 89 19:53:53 GMT References: <763@kl-cs.UUCP> <897@becker.UUCP> Reply-To: mhw@wittsend.UUCP (Michael H. Warfield (Mike)) Organization: Lanier Network Knitting Circle - Thaumaturgy & Speculums Division Lines: 29 In article <897@becker.UUCP> bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) writes: >In article <763@kl-cs.UUCP> mike@cs.keele.ac.uk (Michael A. Green) writes: >| Also does it cope with >| fred: "|/usr/lbin/doit" >| type of thing in /usr/lib/aliases ? > There is a simple patch available for smail 2.5 > which implements this ability. There is also the "lmail" program and the "deliver" programs posted sometime ago which give you much the same capablility without some of the inherent security risks that come with the patch. If I recall correctely the biggest danger with the simple patch to smail was that there was no protection from someone mailing something to an address like "|burn" from outside your system. Now maybe you want something like this. If you do, let me know what your site name is. I'll test it out for you :-) :-). Note: Just because I never saw it, doesn't mean that problem wasn't fixed. If it was, my appologies. Michael H. Warfield (The Mad Wizard) | gatech.edu!galbp!wittsend!mhw (404) 270-2123 / 270-2098 | mhw@wittsend.LBP.HARRIS.COM An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!