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Subject: Re: Rebound Mail Account Help Needed...
From: John Sechrest <sechrest @ peak . org>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 09:12:51 -0700
To: Bill Houle <bhoule @ sparc . sandiegoca . ncr . com>
Cc: mlemsing @ swavley . com . au (Matt Lemsing), majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 15 Oct 1998 07:41:12 PDT. <199810151441.HAA05819@sparc.sandiegoca.ncr.com>


	If you want to walk thru a mail test, on a one
	by one basis. 
	
	And you are willing to give the passwords for the
	accounts to a program (and all the security risk that
	entails)
	
	Then you should explore the use of "expect" to 
	do that hand work for you.
	
	


Bill Houle <bhoule@sparc.sandiegoca.ncr.com> writes:

 % Matt Lemsing said:
 % > 
 % > Someone has suggested that i use procmail but i really want something
 % > more straightforward and simple.
 % 
 % $ mailx -s test user@smallisp.com.au < /etc/motd
 % $ rlogin smallisp.com.au -l root
 % $ mailx -u user
 % <read to verify>
 % <delete>
 % <quit>
 % $ exit
 % 
 % Can't get much more simple than that. Anything else (Majordomo [not
 % apprpriate by any stretch of the imagination] or procmail [best bet])
 % means setting up and tearing down something on each account just for 
 % the purposes of a one-time test. Why would you want to do that?
 % 
 % --bill
 % 

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