From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 12 1: 1:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87B0F37B407 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 01:01:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@spare0.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.114]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA03180; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:31:33 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.7 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200106112129540460.11D1B51F@smtp> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:31:33 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: "Arthur W. Neilson III" Subject: RE: emailing a printer Cc: stable@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 12-Jun-2001 Arthur W. Neilson III wrote: > Recently I was asked if FreeBSD could be used as a print server for > email; i.e. sending email to a networked printer. The idea is to have > email addresses for printers and be able to route mail to them for > delivery on hardcopy. We have *many* printers and my initial idea > of using /etc/mail/aliases i.e. helpdesk@boh.com: "| lpr 10.0.0.1" > for example seems rather cumbersome and difficult to manage when > you start adding them all up. Does anyone have recommendations > for this? Write a program in to parse the message and switch based on subject etc.. PS lots of potential security holes here :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message