Using Sendmail on MPE - April 2003

Using Sendmail on MPE - Solution Symposium West Page 48April 24, 2003
receiving e-mail
programmatically
•incoming e-mail will be delivered
to programs specified in the aliases
database or .forward files
•the e-mail will be delivered to the
program via a POSIX pipe
connected to the program’s stdin
•the POSIX newline character \n
(ASCII LF) is used as a record
separator
•if the program terminates with a
non-zero POSIX exit status, any info
written to stderr will be returned in a
bounce message