Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:15:51 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Sending a notification email Message-ID: <20011218141551.G5427@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <1dd6fe1dc491.1dc4911dd6fe@mbox.com.au> References: <1dd6fe1dc491.1dc4911dd6fe@mbox.com.au>
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> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 00:00:00 +1100
> From: BSD Freak <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au>
> Subject: Sending a notification email
> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
>
> 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.
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