On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 04:27:34PM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote: > The very ancient Unix way of announcing email is called "comsat". It is > implemented by a daemon to which the mailer sends a message (using UDP). > The daemon then writes "you have mail" to the user's terminal if she/he > is logged in. Exim has support for comsat - check the "notify_comsat" > option of appendfile. If you were to write a replacement daemon that > accepted comsat-style messages, Exim can already support you.
Using comsat to transmit not a login name, but a mail address, may stretch the "specification", because the format is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". There is only one "@" and the recipient is assumed to have access to the mailbox in mbox format. I am curious if your question may has been the first time comsat has been mentioned on this list in the 21st century. :-) Currently, the Sieve WG works on a notify extension framework, using URIs as notification targets. There is already some alpha code for Exim to use mailto: URIs. That way, the user can decide which mails are considered important enough to trigger a notification. It's not as perfect, because the notification will be sent when Exim processes a message, not after it has filed it, but it is way more flexible. You could send a notification and then forward the message to a different address. Michael -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
