Woops .. i answered to this question earlier and screwed up..
hehe ..
if you use system to mail a file
i said to use
system("mail < tmp.file");
i should have said
system("mail user@host < tmp.file");
.. sorry...
-- Ricardo
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Edward Glamkowski wrote:
> First, are you collecting email addresses at character creation?
> It would be slightly easier if you do, since it is one less bit
> of information to ask for when composing the message.
> When the player writes the text to be emailed, save it to a file.
> If necessary, create some extra fields in the file to hold email
> addresses to and from, title of message, and anything else of interest.
> Then write a little shell [Perl!] script that would parse the file and
> do the email'ing when run, and put an entry in the crontab to run the
> script every 30 minutes or every hour or whatever. And be sure to
> delete the files after they've been sent! (unless you plan on reading
> them... };)
> Perhaps a bit tedious, but it should work.
>
> You will also have to have a good understanding of how to run
> your mail utility non-interactively. (sendmail should work - any
> security issues to be aware of here? I know there are if you have
> an older version of sendmail... ;)
> RTM for details on this.
>
> >----------
> >From: Jeff Almeida[SMTP:jalmeida@IX.NETCOM.COM]
> >Sent: Saturday, January 03, 1998 11:15 AM
> >To: CIRCLE@POST.QUEENSU.CA
> >Subject: Email from within the MUD
> >
> >How do I go about having the MUD automatically send an email. (NOT
> >Mudmail, just a good ole every day email...) I would imagine that it would
> >have to do with reading the Man pages on pine or mail, but has anyone done
> >this? (I also realize that this will make the mud platform specific.
> >
> >Jeff
> >(Delst of Sugilite)
> >
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