From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 5 10:14:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 003CE16A4B3 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 10:14:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out009.verizon.net (out009pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39DCE43FFD for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 10:14:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.237.14.199]) by out009.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20031005171406.RSCI4096.out009.verizon.net@mac.com>; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 12:14:06 -0500 Message-ID: <3F80515A.7040806@mac.com> Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 13:14:02 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gabriel Striewe References: <20031005120452.GA22430@desktop.gs> In-Reply-To: <20031005120452.GA22430@desktop.gs> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out009.verizon.net from [68.237.14.199] at Sun, 5 Oct 2003 12:14:06 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Email notification X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 17:14:09 -0000 Gabriel Striewe wrote: > I would like to send an email notification to an outside email address > whenever new mail arrives in a certain mailbox. > > What is the best procedure to follow here? See "man vacation" for instructions on how to set up one common autoresponder. Something like procmail will let you do more complicated things... -- -Chuck