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Re: local sendmail



On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 09:53:03AM -0500, Aron Griffis wrote:
> emailjp79@xxxxxx wrote:  [Wed Feb 04 2009, 09:38:07AM EST]
> > Is there some other way around this other than having to run postfix?
> 
> I haven't used rss2email but it seems trivial to edit
> rss2email.py to call procmail instead of sendmail.  Something
> like:
> 
> --- rss2email.py.orig   2009-02-04 09:51:18.000000000 -0500
> +++ rss2email.py        2009-02-04 09:52:14.000000000 -0500
> @@ -188 +188 @@
> -               i, o = os.popen2(["/usr/sbin/sendmail", recipient])
> +               i, o = os.popen2(["/usr/bin/procmail"])
> 

I did the same a while ago (6+ months) and it works just fine. Besides,
it also helps to keep procastination confined only to my personal PC,
instead of chasing me on my online mailboxes.

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Javier Rojas

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