From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 18 5: 7:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.cz (diana.mobil.cz [195.39.16.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F15B37B43C for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 05:07:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from ester.mobil.cz (ester.mobil.cz [194.213.62.23]) by mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fBID7gP09403 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:07:42 +0100 Received: from roman.mobil.cz ([10.2.0.89]) by ester.mobil.cz (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.7) with ESMTP id 2001121814063563:1585 ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:06:35 +0100 Received: (from roman@localhost) by roman.mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBIDFpj13377 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:15:51 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from neuhauser@mobil.cz) X-Authentication-Warning: roman.mobil.cz: roman set sender to neuhauser@mobil.cz using -f Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:15:51 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Sending a notification email Message-ID: <20011218141551.G5427@roman.mobil.cz> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Questions References: <1dd6fe1dc491.1dc4911dd6fe@mbox.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1dd6fe1dc491.1dc4911dd6fe@mbox.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 12/18/2001 02:06:35 PM, Serialize by Router on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 12/18/2001 02:06:41 PM, Serialize complete at 12/18/2001 02:06:41 PM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 > Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 00:00:00 +1100 > From: BSD Freak > Subject: Sending a notification email > To: FreeBSD Questions > > Hi all, > > This may seem really wierd but I have an email account on a server > which I rarely check (because I am not really supposed to get anything > there). However when I do get an email there it can be huge. So what I > want to do is rather than setting up a .forward from that account to > me regular account, I want the mail server to simply to send a > notification email to my regular email account telling me that I have > received an email at the account which I don't normally check, as I > don't want huge emails being forwarded all over the place.... Instead of using .forward to just send the mail to you, you can use pipe the message to a script that'll send just the headers, and store the message locally. I guess the MTA host will have procmail or maildrop installed, so this should be doable. -- FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 2:13PM up 1 day, 1:09, 12 users, load averages: 0.08, 0.07, 0.07 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message