Re: [SLE] Print an incoming FAX - Using Procmail?

2 Oct 2002

      Jethro,

procmail is a "mail processor". When sendmail (or postfix or whatever)
proceses incoming mail (even if fetched with fetchmail from pop3 or imap
accounts), it will pass the mail to procmail for each user that has a
.procmail file. It is very powerfull, I use it to put the mail I fetch
from different accounts into diferent mailboxes, separate mail-list, etc.

I would recomend you to have a look at its manual page and the examples
manual page (man procmailex). There are some examples somewhat similar to
your case:

excerpt+++
       The following recipe prints every incoming mail that looks like a postscript file.

              :0 Bb
              * ^^%!
              | lpr

       The following recipe does the same, but is  a  bit  more  selective.   It  only  prints  the
       postscript  file  if it comes from the print-server.  The first condition matches only if it
       is found in the header.  The second condition only matches at the start of the body.

              :0 b
              * ^From[ :].*print-server
              * B ?? ^^%!
              | lpr

       The same as above, but now by slightly different means:

              :0
              * ^From[ :].*print-server
              {
                :0 B b
                * ^^%!
                | lpr
              }

       Likewise:

              :0 HB b
              * ^^(.+$)*From[ :].*print-server
              * ^^(.+$)*^%!
              | lpr
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Also, look up the word "fax" on the sdb. The query pops up with some
programs to do conversions from/to fax formats, and client/server
software.

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson

El 02.10.02 a las 15:32, Jethro Cramp escribió:
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Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 15:32:45 +0000
From: Jethro Cramp 
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Cc: Carlos E. R. 
Subject: Re: [SLE] Print an incoming FAX - Using Procmail?
Carlos,
I'm not familiar with procmail, I know that it can be used for sorting
incoming mail, which I presume would include doing something with mail and
forwarding it on to other programs. Can procmail handle the mime>tiff
conversion?
TIA,
Jethro
On Monday 30 September 2002 19:49, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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Probably you could do it with "procmail".