Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 20:30:01 -0500 (EST) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: they have mail Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980202202844.15819A-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980203122046.54922@welearn.com.au>
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Sue, the \ in front of the username is critical. It tells sendmail to leave a copy of the letter in the user's mail dir. Without this, you'll get into a massive loop. e.g.: ~user/.forward: \user, "| /path/scriptname" That should solve the disaster problem. Joe Clarke On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Sue Blake wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 1998 at 08:58:42AM +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > > I want to be notified (preferably by email) when mail arrives for a couple > > of users on my system. This will be a rare event which needs a reasonably > > quick response. > > > > I do not want to receive a copy of their mail, just know about it so I can > > advise them. > > Thanks to all those who offered suggestions. They all made sense, and > they all nearly worked. The most spectacular attempt so far > (user:user,"|/path/scriptname" in /etc/aliases) resulted in errors of > such magnitude (trying to forward to user called "|/path/scriptname") > that root was sent a copy of the whole disaster... and root mail gets > forwarded to me anyway so it was a kind of success :-) > > Well I'd better study up on this forward and script business some more, > then maybe I'll see a way to delete the private message body before it > gets sent to me. > > Meanwhile, bash seems able to check for other people's mail and that > might be good enough. Still fiddling with that one... > > -- > > Regards, > -*Sue*- > >
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