[rt-users] Mail Alias Setup

[Mauricio Tavares]

Joe Hartley wrote:
> 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.  
> 
	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.

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