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by **Bill K** » Tue, 01 Jun 1999 04:00:00

Does anybody know of any software or how to set up existing standard
Linux software to send notification of new mail to a third party without
actually sending its content? This would be quite useful for those who
rarely check their mail to have a third person notify them of mail
receipt without compromising any privacy.

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by **Pravee** » Sat, 05 Jun 1999 04:00:00

> Does anybody know of any software or how to set up existing standard
> Linux software to send notification of new mail to a third party without
> actually sending its content? This would be quite useful for those who
> rarely check their mail to have a third person notify them of mail
> receipt without compromising any privacy.

> --

> **** WARNING **** All unsolicited bulk e-mail received at this address
> will be promptly reported to the sender's system administrator, and to
> law enforcement authorities whenever applicable.

Check out KBiff. I found it on the RH6.0 CD. In the configuration you
have the option of running any command you want when a new mail arrives.
Set it up to run a script or whatever you want (page the recipient or
dial the cell phone????).

-Praveen

by **gus** » Tue, 08 Jun 1999 04:00:00

> Does anybody know of any software or how to set up existing standard
> Linux software to send notification of new mail to a third party without
> actually sending its content? This would be quite useful for those who
> rarely check their mail to have a third person notify them of mail
> receipt without compromising any privacy.

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Just seen this mail now, and it intrigued me ...

I would perhaps use cron, calling a simple script, every "x" minutes.
This script will scan all the update times of the files in
/var/spool/mail/ and anything which has been updated in the last "x"
minutes means that the user with the same name has new mail.

Working from memory ....
find /var/spool/mail -mmin -5 -exec "notifyuser {}" \;

will find all the users who received mail in last 5 minutes ... and call
a script "notifyuser" with the name of the mailbox with new mail.

This can be run as "nobody", I think... no chance of data security
issues.

just a thought .... ;-)

gus

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