Re: Error handling via Sendmail

[Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>]

On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Christopher W Che wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I have been using HylaFAX for a while. Once a while, a fax will not be able
> to send out due to certain error conditions. HylaFAX will then send an
> error notice to the 'fax' user via Sendmail. That's all good.
> (We collect all user's fax requests via a front-end application, and all
> fax are sent out using the 'fax' user account.)
> 
> Can somebody give me some pointers how to perform 'Error handling' based
> on the incoming 'error mail' from hylaFAX ?
> What is the best way to poke at the mbox and perform programmtic error 
> handling for the specific sender?

Run the incoming mail thru' a mail-filter that takes action depending
on patterns of error strings. `procmail' is a good place to start.
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