Re: [exim] announce delivery

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Author: Beber
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To: David Saez Padros
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] announce delivery
Le Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:54:40 +0200, David Saez Padros <david@???> a
écrit :

> Hi !!
>
> > The very ancient Unix way of announcing email is called "comsat". It is
> > implemented by a daemon to which the mailer sends a message (using UDP).
> > The daemon then writes "you have mail" to the user's terminal if she/he
> > is logged in. Exim has support for comsat - check the "notify_comsat"
> > option of appendfile. If you were to write a replacement daemon that
> > accepted comsat-style messages, Exim can already support you.
> >
> > Oddly enough, I looked at the comsat code only yesterday and thought "I
> > wonder if anybody uses this any more?"
>
> looks very useful for users who want to know when they receive some
> important mail on his mobile via SMS. It's not necessary to write a
> full daemon to have comsat hacking as shown in this page:
>
> http://larve.net/people/hugo/1998/01/hcomsat
>
> BTW, it will be also great to have a similar feature for remote
> deliveries


That's great. Could be a good point to start.

Thanks

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