Re: flexfax: faxrm JobID via e-mail

[Tom <tom@uniserve.com>]

On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Tim Ballingall wrote:

> Some mail systems will let you deliver mail to a program.. I can't remember
> if sendmail will do it though.. Post.Office does.

  Yes, sendmail can do this.  So can smail, exim, qmail, and postfix.

> You could then get this program to parse the users mailbox For the messages
> with the JobID in it... Alternatively perhaps a cron Job doing a similar
> thing..

  You wouldn't parse the users mailbox, as the message is delivered to the
program via stdin.

> This may be a little primitive.. Any other suggestions..?

  Parsing the mailbox is primitive, but you can't get any better than
delivering to a program.

Tom