Zitiere Peter Hartzler <pete@hartzler.net>:
Ah. You didn't say you had access to the source of the other program... Any reason you can't modify your perl cgi program to prepend the magic line?
Why making things more complicated as they are? He wants to administer a subscriber list with a cgi and smartlist. He can modify his cgi to simply send the prospective address with an X-Command line to the list-request address instead of writing it to a file and find ways how SL could use this file. There are ready to use CGI's which can do such things, e.g. XCommand ftp://ftp.pure.ch/smartlist/ Werner
I still think that what I want to do is not a great departure from what many folks might like a mailing list system to do. I have a input text box on a web page where viewers can fill in their email address if they want to be notified when the page changes. My simple perl script appends their email address to a flat file that has one email address per line. I'd like to be able to use this file of email addresses as the distribution list for SmartList. However, I'd like SmartList to handle the bounces. I'd also like to be able to have users subscribe and unsubscribe directly to the -request address. My perl script wouldn't "care" if another program, such as SmartList, were also adding and deleting lines.