Re: Piping Mime String to Metamail Fails
| From: | Don Read | Date: | Fri, 13 Jul 2001 20:45:07 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Piping Mime String to Metamail Fails | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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On 13-Jul-01 Jeff Hill wrote:
> Don Read wrote:
>> On 13-Jul-01 Jeff Hill wrote:
>> > I've tried everything I can to pipe a string with mime content to
>> > metamail, but it fails in every variation of:
>> >
>> > exec("echo $mime_string | /usr/bin/metamail -d -q -r -w -x -y ",
>> > $met_res) ;
>>
>> what about "/bin/echo ..."
>
> Nope, but I do appreciate the thought. Using "/bin/echo" just results in
> $met_res becoming an empty array, as does my example string.
>
Huh ?
$cmd='/bin/echo' ." $mime_string | /usr/bin/metamail -d -q -r -w -x -y ";
echo ' cmd is:<br>', $cmd, '<p>';
fpassthru($cmd);
Regards,
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Don Read dread@texas.net
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