<quote who="Larry Hiscock"> > We've done it on Linux & SCO, but not AIX, although the concepts should be > the same. Under AIX, the locations and names of the files will > undoubtedly > be different ;-) > > There are a couple of issues: > > 1) I'm not sure I'd expose my application server's to receive email > directly > from the outside world, unless you're REALLY comfortable with setting up > sendmail securely, and even THEN I probably wouldn't do it. If you have > an > email server, you can receive mail there under an alias, and have it > forward > to the AIX box behind the firewall. > > 2) If you want automatic processing, you can setup an alias on the AIX box > that pipes the email to a script. Under SCO (at least as of 5.0.5, > haven't > checked newer releases, although I will be in a couple of weeks), it's > just > a matter of creating the alias. Under RedHat, you have to place the > script > to run in /etc/smrsh. RedHat's sendmail will ONLY run scripts in this > directory. The script can call other scripts that are outside the > sandbox, > however.
As Glen said, use procmail. The scripts can be run from .forward based on whatever rule you write to parse through the email. Do #1 above, however. > > 3) Your receiving script (or whatever U2 program it runs) will then need > to > parse the incoming email for whatever you want it to do. > > > Larry Hiscock > Western Computer Services > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Witney > Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 2:55 AM > To: U2-Users (E-mail) > Subject: [U2] Emails into AIX > > 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 > > Is anyone doing this > > How do I set it up ? > > Thanks > > Bob > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ > ------- > u2-users mailing list > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.13/195 - Release Date: 12/8/2005 > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.13/195 - Release Date: 12/8/2005 > ------- > u2-users mailing list > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > -- karl _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ ____________ __o _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ ____________ _-\<._ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ (_)/ (_) _/ _/ _/ _/ ...................... _/ _/ arl _/_/_/ _/ earson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- IT Director, ATS Industrial Supply, Inc. http://www.atsindustrial.com Toll-free: 800-789-9300 x29 Direct2Desk: 801-978-4429 Facsimile: 801-972-3888 -- ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
