Hi,
I need some help in understanding the line for mail alias setup. I understand that when a mail is sent to the id rt, it gets redirected to the members specified in the second column. I am not sure why this gets redirected and why the | is used in here.
rt: “|/etc/smrsh/rt-mailgate --queue ‘general’ --action correspond --url !http:///”
Thanks,
Baskar N
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Hi,
I need some help in understanding the line for mail alias setup. I
understand that when a mail is sent to the id rt, it gets redirected to the
members specified in the second column. I am not sure why this gets
redirected and why the | is used in here.
rt: “|/etc/smrsh/rt-mailgate --queue ‘general’ --action correspond --url
!http:///”
The “|” is a pipe.
And you don’t need the “!” before yout http in that line.
What documentation is this you are reading?
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Thanks much for the reply. I am looking at the documentation at FedoraCore9InstallGuide - Request Tracker Wiki. Can you please explain what this line mean. I understand that “rt” is a mailer alias and any mail sent to rt in this server will be sent to user in the second column.
Thanks,
Baskar NFrom: Odhiambo Washington [mailto:odhiambo@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 6:08 PM
To: Baskaraganesan Natarajan
Cc: rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com
Subject: Re: [rt-users] Mail Alias Setup
Hi,
I need some help in understanding the line for mail alias setup. I understand that when a mail is sent to the id rt, it gets redirected to the members specified in the second column. I am not sure why this gets redirected and why the | is used in here.
rt: “|/etc/smrsh/rt-mailgate --queue ‘general’ --action correspond --url !http:///”
The “|” is a pipe.
And you don’t need the “!” before yout http in that line.
What documentation is this you are reading?
Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254733744121/+254722743223
“If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!.”
– Lucky Dube
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Baskaraganesan Natarajan writes:
rt: “|/etc/smrsh/rt-mailgate --queue ‘general’ --action correspond --url http:///”
Can you please explain what this line mean. I understand that “rt” is a
mailer alias and any mail sent to rt in this server will be sent to user
in the second column.
The pipe in a UNIX shell takes the output from a program or process and
sends it to be the input of another.
When the second half of an alias begins with a pipe, it takes the output
from sendmail (the email message) and pipes it to the command listed in
the alias to be used as that program’s input - in this case, the
rt-mailgate program.
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Joe Hartley wrote:
Baskaraganesan Natarajan writes:
rt: “|/etc/smrsh/rt-mailgate --queue ‘general’ --action correspond --url http:///”
Can you please explain what this line mean. I understand that “rt” is a
mailer alias and any mail sent to rt in this server will be sent to user
in the second column.
The pipe in a UNIX shell takes the output from a program or process and
sends it to be the input of another.
When the second half of an alias begins with a pipe, it takes the output
from sendmail (the email message) and pipes it to the command listed in
the alias to be used as that program’s input - in this case, the
rt-mailgate program.
And, depending on your mts and unix/linux distro, the man page for
alias will have a paragraph explaining that in addition to aliasing one
address to the other, you can also pass the email to a program by using
the unix pipe “|” thingie.