Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 19:31:05 +1100 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: they have mail Message-ID: <19980203193105.31895@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980203000221.11203B-100000@shell.futuresouth.com>; from Matthew D. Fuller on Tue, Feb 03, 1998 at 12:06:12AM -0600 References: <19980203122046.54922@welearn.com.au> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980203000221.11203B-100000@shell.futuresouth.com>
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On Tue, Feb 03, 1998 at 12:06:12AM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 03, 1998 at 08:58:42AM +1100, Sue Blake wrote:
> > > I do not want to receive a copy of their mail, just know about it so I
> > > can advise them.
> You can have xbiff point at different files.
> For instance, I have the various FreeBSD lists procmail'd to different
> folders, so I have a script that does the following:
> xbiff -geometry blah &
> xbiff -file /home/fullermd/mail/f-questions -geometry blah
Thanks, that'll be ideal while I'm running X and on site!
When telnetting to an un-X-worthy 386 to check mail, how about this:
The users have their mail forward (back to themselves and) to a
dummy user. That works fine now.
The dummy user then tries some tricks, as dummies do :-)
sue@phoenix$ ls -l ~dummy/.forward ~dummy/notifysue
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root dummy 32 Feb 3 17:58 /home/dummy/.forward
-rwxr-xr-x 1 dummy dummy 44 Feb 3 18:36 /home/dummy/notifysue
~dummy/.forward contains:
\dummy,
"/home/dummy/notifysue"
and ~dummy/notifysue contains:
echo x | mail | mail -s "== New mail ==" sue
Run manually, notifysue works a treat! But the .forward doesn't run it for
some reason.
The forward man page doesn't give away many details, but it does look like
the above should have worked.
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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