From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 1 8: 7: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E04437B41B for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 08:07:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g21G6m5P001652; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 10:06:49 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g21G6l4O001651; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 10:06:47 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 10:06:47 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Ian Barnes Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tech Notes Message-ID: <20020301160646.GE86172@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3C7F8268.6D444EBE@cerebellum.za.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C7F8268.6D444EBE@cerebellum.za.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Mar 01), Ian Barnes said: > Hi, > > I was wondering if there isnt a program that, when requested via email, > can send back, via email, a file or information that was requested. So > for example if i want information on email, then i would send an email > to the server with the appropriate reference number, and the server > would email me back information on email. But all automatically. > > It would be the same sort of concept as majordomo ... You could use majordomo, or smartlist, or even procmail. In fact in the procmailex manpage there is an example of a minimal auto-responder that returns a named file back to the sender. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message