[95806] in RedHat Linux List
Re: OFF - Sendmail and Perl/Scripting question.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin W. Reed)
Wed Oct 21 12:01:42 1998
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 09:00:49 -0700
From: "Kevin W. Reed" <soldo@telesys.tnet.com>
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In-Reply-To: <199810211445.IAA03294@sycore.ml.org>; from Colin Cyr on Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 08:45:05AM -0600
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Told to us by Colin Cyr (ccyr@sycore.ml.org)
on Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 08:45:05AM -0600
> Hello, I'm working on a small project, I require the ability to send out
> e-mail from the Per; script.
>
> This in and of itself is quite easy, the following task is not (from what I
> can see). I need to track the message ID's on the outgoing mail so I can
> properly handle incoming mail.
>
> Is there any way to get sendmail to kick back the message ID of the message it
> just sent?
Yep.... Give it a Message-ID: header in the message you hand to it,
if it is format correctly, it will use that instead of generating its
own.
filename:
----------------------------------------------------------------
From: Perl Script <perl@home.com>
To: Santa Claus <s.claus@northpole.com>
Subject: New Toys for My Linux Box
Message-ID: <1998Oct21.0859.15513@special.com>
I need new toys for my Linux box.... I've been real good...
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sendmail -oi -f perl@home.com -t < filename
> The only other solutions I could think of are:
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