As an alternative to #4, you could also create an alias that pipes the incoming mail to a script (which in turn could fire off a phantom) to process the received mail and do something with it.
Larry Hiscock Western Computer Services -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of George Gallen Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 7:05 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Unix mail server? as others have said, regarding opening the server up to the net, what you could also do is. 1. configure SENDMAIL on the rs/6000 to masquarade your domain as another server, and use a relay server. 2. configure hosts.allow/SENDMAIL to ONLY allow receipt of email from that relay server. 3. configure a linux box as an email server that only allows relaying from the rs/6000 box. 4. configure the rs/6000, an alias of an email address to append to a filename (ex: emailname: /tmp/EMAILIN), then setup a UV VOC as <1>F <2>/tmp <3>D_SOURCE. You can now read the data by ED vocentry EMAILIN George > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:u2-users- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Burwell, Ed > Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 9:57 AM > To: U2 Users List > Subject: Re: [U2] Unix mail server? > > Here's a high-level view of what I'm envisioning: > > 1. Our Unidata application sends an email to the outside world, giving > the recipient certain options. > 2. The recipient hits REPLY, types a few characters and hits SEND. > 3. Our rs/6000 receives the email and put it "somewhere". > 4. Our Unidata application could periodically check that "somewhere" > for > received mail and do whatever with it. > > Thanks for your responses so far. > _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
