Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:33:28 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Sending a notification email Message-ID: <20011218163328.K5427@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <3C1F5EC0.4070104@verizon.net> References: <1dd6fe1dc491.1dc4911dd6fe@mbox.com.au> <20011218141551.G5427@roman.mobil.cz> <3C1F5EC0.4070104@verizon.net>
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> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 10:20:32 -0500
> From: Simon Morton <simon.morton@verizon.net>
> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Subject: Re: Sending a notification email
>
> Roman Neuhauser wrote:
>
> >>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.
> >
>
>
> or, assuming that the huge mail is received by user joe, you could just
> create a .forward file in joe's home directory containing the lines:
>
> |/path/to/myscript.sh
> \joe
>
> where myscript.sh is a script that will send a notification email to
> your regular email account, reading as much of the original mail as
> it needs from stdin.
Yes, that's exactly what I meant. Sorry for the confusion. I
mentioned the two MDAs because they both have provisions for easy
identifications of message size, header extraction etc.
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