Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:11:59 -1000 From: "Arthur W. Neilson III" <art@pilikia.net> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: emailing a printer Message-ID: <200106112211590770.11F83F3B@smtp> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20010612173133.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <XFMail.20010612173133.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Using the subject line might work well. Our legacy system has a proprietary mail software that is going away and we need to replace this email print functionality somehow :^) we have various batch jobs and form mail which currently send requests and reports to printers based on email addresses. I was just wondering how other datacenters handle this, we certainly can't be the first... On 6/12/01 at 5:31 PM Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >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 -- __ / ) _/_ It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. /--/ __ / Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, / (_/ (_<__ Instead of theories to suit facts. -- Sherlock Holmes, "A Scandal in Bohemia" Arthur W. Neilson III, WH7N - FISTS #7448 Bank of Hawaii Network Services http://www.pilikia.net art@pilikia.net, aneilson@boh.com, wh7n@arrl.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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