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- From: magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: mail .forward (ver 3.2.1)
- Message-ID: <92112114205@drktowr.chi.il.us>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 09:52:51 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.183240.27338@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
- Organization: DarkTower Software
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- BLACK PAUL (pblack@cory.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:
- : Can I use .forward to send to files or pipes? Have other people got
- : auto-responders working on Coherent? If so, how?
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- You could use cron to grab the /usr/spool/mail/<username> file and have a script
- that cuts it apart at the (^A)'s and then pipes each letter to your program.
-
- It's not instantaneous, but I would think for autoresponders, a batch
- response would be alright.
-
- -Louis
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