Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:31:33 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: "Arthur W. Neilson III" <art@pilikia.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: emailing a printer Message-ID: <XFMail.20010612173133.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200106112129540460.11D1B51F@smtp>
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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 <tcl|perl|sh|awk|c|python|..> 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
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