Check out postie at infradig.com ($75). It is a command line mailer; you can send email (with attachments) through any smtp mail server, and you can retrieve/process pop3 or imap mail from anywhere, and even copy/move/delete messages from your imap folders. All command-line, all scriptable, all easy to do from inside U2 or Pick.
/Scott Ballinger Pareto Corporation Edmonds WA USA 206 713 6006 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 7:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [U2] Emails into AIX <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 > [email protected] > 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 > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
