Re: Print & Email the same document
Dave Thayer wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 03:17:51PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> [...]
> > > > I might have left out detail that might prove to be important. This
> > > > printer queue will be shared over the network so that a 911 call
> > > > notification server can print to it, generating both the printout and an
> > > > email and a beeper message (via email). The 911 call notification server
> > > > is running on a WindowsNT (gag, aack) box. Currently, the 911 software
> > > > can't print and email, so I wanted to bring Linux into the picture to
> > > > demonstrate to the big-whigs that Linux solves problems. Only thing is,
> > > > I've been trying for two years off-and-on to solve this problem with
> > > > no results.
> [...]
>
> What if, instead of sending the message to a print queue and generating an
> email, you generated an email and then printed it? You could do this by
> having the 911 software email to an account on your *nix box which has a
> ~/.forward containing something like:
>
> 555-555-555@pagerco.com, security.boss@enormous.edu, "|lpr"
>
> Any mail to this account would be forwarded and printed. Of course, this
> might include spam...
>
> Cheers,
> your pal dave.
> --
> Dave Thayer
> Denver, Colorado USA
> dthayer+sig@netcom.com
That's an option, and I might resort to it, but it would mean setting up a mail
server on the Linux box, which isn't as "clean" in the eyes of the administration as
a print server.
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