[rt-users] Mail Alias Setup

[Joe Hartley]

Baskaraganesan Natarajan writes:
> rt: "|/etc/smrsh/rt-mailgate --queue 'general' --action correspond --url http://<rt3-host>/"
> 
> 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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