How is that done on the box?

Miguel Cruz wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Dennis Gearon wrote:
> > All these lists that have addresses to subscribe, unsubscribe, etc, how
> > do they work? Are they using a cron job to poll the mail inbox through
> > sendmail? Does all mail not to a specific address at the site go to a
> > 'catchall' address, which is then polled?
> 
> Usually the mail is delivered directly to a program rather than to a
> mailbox. The program receives the incoming message as input and handles it
> as it pleases.
> 
> miguel

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