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1997-06-27 11:55:00

Hey y'all.  This is rather interesting.  I want to match an incoming
message based on From and Subject and add it to 'msgs' (the system-wide
notices program).

'man msgs' says:


     The -s option is used for setting up the posting of mes-
     sages.  The line

          msgs: "| /usr/ucb/msgs -s"

     should be include in /etc/sendmail/aliases to enable posting
     of messages.

I assume this means that messages could be sent to 
'msgs(_at_)myhostname(_dot_)com'
and they would be posted?

However, that does not seem to work.  I wonder if it has something to do
with my particular mail setup (sendmail config'd to masquerade_as
peak.org) or with NeXTstep and NetInfo.


I could do a raw 'send the body of the message to "msgs"' using procmail:

:0 B
* ^From:.*techsupport\.domain\.com
* ^Subject:.*Scheduled Downtime
| /usr/ucb/msgs -s


but if that worked (it's untested) it still wouldn't have a Subject.

I was wondering if anyone had done this already before I reinvent
something that has already been made better

TjL

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