Thanks, Terry for the Perl! I have forwarded it to a fellow over here who is studying C++ so he can see what you did. He's going to mess around with it and whip something up, too. If he comes up with something substantially different, I'll forward a copy to you (if you like)
If the script were to notify the user each time she received a new email, that would also be fine. In fact, it might be better than a once-a-day cron or a 4-times-a-day cron, since the user would only need to concern herself with her webmail account if she actually received any mail. I'll forward Sandy's comments to my colleague as well to give him more food for thought .... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Smart Business Lists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sanford Whiteman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 2:17 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] new mail notification script > Sanford, > Wednesday, August 21, 2002 you wrote: > SW> To me, the simplest way to implement this functionality without > SW> disrupting/mangling delivery of messages would be to forward > SW> message bodies to a Program Alias that runs a filter for recipient > SW> addresses and sends off a one-line alert using IMAIL1. > > I thought of that, too. One of the program constraints is that you > have to have a place for the alternate email address and it would > be possible to store that with the program alias as a parameter. > So that was another benefit. > > More significantly though (as I understood the requirement) is > that the user does not want to have a one-to-one notice for each > mail but only some sort of infrequent but periodic notification. > So then if you did it with an alias you'd have to have some > mechanism to prevent one-to-one notices and I didn't see > particularly happy way to do that. > > I took 5 or 10 minutes and wrote a small perl program that worked > pretty much as I described and sent it to him after I tested on my > domains. Only real difference was I just put the password in an > array inside the program rather than worrying with looking it up. > > And of course that way you can run it from any location. > > Kind of interesting little problem though. > > Terry Fritts > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > --- > [This e-mail was scanned for viruses by Webjogger's AntiVirus Protection System] > > --- [This e-mail was scanned for viruses by Webjogger's AntiVirus Protection System] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
