cancel print job mail

[Larry Basford]

Our system prints everything as user root.
every time someone cancels a print job root gets the mail that the job was canceled by user
Thus root get lots of mail he dosn't want to see.
Is there any way to stop, filter, antispam etc. these messages?

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

a) root should never read it's mail for security reasons -- it's a privileged user. Use aliases or .forward to forward root-mail to one or two unprivileged users:

root: usera, userb

b) These users can always use something like procmail to filter out unwanted mail (e.g. all mail with the Subject: of "your printjob has been canceled"

Get procmail at www.procmail.org

[Larry Basford]

The root user is .forwarded to a Lotus Notes user.
I looked at the procmail an it looks to be hard to ser up just to filter out the messages.
Can you give me any help on that product?

[Dave Kelly_1]

I answered this question a few weeks ago.

Check

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0xd9bf854994d9d4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html