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From:
Jim Gibson
Date:
April 28, 2010 22:23
Subject:
Re: sendmail arguments
Message ID:
p06240800c7fec7550be2@[192.168.1.3]
At 3:10 PM +1200 4/29/10, John Bruin wrote:
>I have inherited a Perl script which sends and parses email. I am having
>trouble trying to figure out what the "-oi" and "-oem" arguments do in the
>sub below. Can anyone help?
>
>Thanks
>John
>
>sub mail(*) {
>	my $top = shift;
>	open(MAIL, "| $sendmail -t -oi -oem") or die "open: $!";
>	$top->print(\*MAIL);
>	close MAIL;
>}

I did a 'man sendmail' on my Unix-based system and came up with this 
explanation:

        -oi    When reading a message from standard input, don't treat  a  line
               with only a . character as the end of input.

but, alas, no explanation for -oem. Try the same command on your 
system, or submit the query 'sendmail command line options' to your 
favorite search engine

Good luck!


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