What's the best way to send mail as stdin to a program, using sendmail?

by rupe

What's the best way to send mail as stdin to a program, using sendmail?

Copy your script/program to /etc/smrsh, and make sure that the executable flag has been set for the file.
Edit /etc/aliases, and create an entry in the file that looks something like this:
```
my_alias_name:	|myscript.py
```
Note that you do not have to specify the absolute path for your script/program. By default, smrsh assumes /etc/smrsh as the path to use.

(Thanks to Robey for help with this.)

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