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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hennessey, Mark F.
> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 2:14 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [U2] Emails into AIX
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I am happily using sendmail to email from the aix boxes
> 
> but I need to be able to email into the aix box to trigger automatioc
> process
> 
> </snip>
> 
> Allowing mail to come in from the outside world could be dangerous, so
> read up on sendmail first.
> 
> I'd guess one way would be to have mailboxes for each job you'd want an e-
> mail to trigger.  A cron
> job then could scan the directory where the mail is help. On my Solaris
> machine e-mails are kept in
> a text file /usr/mail/{userid}.  Let's say you wanted to start backups
> based on e-mail input.  You
> could have a cron job periodically check to see if the file
> /usr/mail/start_backups existed.  If so, it would fire off the backups
> (and delete the file...).
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