chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) (05/26/89)
[followups directed to comp.mail.misc, since Elm is not involved] According to dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel): >I wish to create a mail archiver system. I have Elm 2.1 and Smail 2.5. >How do I create a .forward file that will work with elm/smail to >work automatically when a person sends mail to archive-request. When >the mail goes to archive-request, it will check for a send command, and >then send him/her the appropriate file. The best solution here is Smail 3, but that's not available yet, so... The "deliver" program is intended to provide just such a facility as this. Deliver runs system-wide and/or user-specific shell scripts to determine how to handle incoming mail. For example, the following system delivery file hands all "archive-request" messages to the archive server, and delivers other mail normally. : deliver.sys # System delivery file for u do case "$u" in archive-server) archive-program $FROM <$BODY ;; *) echo $u ;; esac done Deliver can be picked up from ateng by anonymous UUCP. Here are the files in ~uucp/deliver: -rw-r--r-- 1 network 26101 Feb 15 20:36 deliver.01.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 network 18446 Feb 15 20:36 deliver.02.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 network 21081 Feb 15 20:36 deliver.03.Z Here is an L.sys (Systems) entry: ateng Any 2400 ACU 18138824934 ogin:--ogin:--ogin: nuucp -- Chip Salzenberg <chip@ateng.com> or <uunet!ateng!chip> A T Engineering Me? Speak for my company? Surely you jest! "It's no good. They're tapping the lines."