Seems I overlooked the answer....
use a ".forward" file to forward the mail to a file.
Thanx to Joshua Rowe rowe_at_eksystems.com for pointing this out to me.
also suggested by Robert L. McMillin rlm_at_syseca-us.com was the use of
procmail
which can be gotten at : ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
George Gallen
ggallen_at_slackinc.com
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I'm using the sendmail with DU 3.2c (I believe it's version 7). The
question is
can sendmail configuration file be set up to save the mail other than
/usr/spool/mail, but only for one account? The problem is I want mail
from one
account (complaints) to be able to go to a directory with read/write
access. I
would rather not play with the permissions/masks in /usr/spool/mail to
just
allow other r/w access to one file, (the problem is with the DBMS
software,
when it updates a file, it creates a temp, deletes the original and mv's
the temp,
this had too many permission permutations to deal with...) If I could
have
sendmail save all incoming mail for complaints to go to a different
directory and
all others go to the /usr/spool/mail directory, then I could keep this
special
directory in /tmp directory with full rwx permissions.
I have a cron job that runs every 5 minutes, checks the complaints file
for mail
strips out the pertinant info, then processess it and responds if
needed.
Or is there another way to set this up?
Thanx
George Gallen
ggallen_at_slackinc.com
Received on Wed Oct 15 1997 - 07:10:01 NZDT