Setting Up Email Printers

[Jorge Chinchilla]

Is it possible to setup printers to do email as output. Has anyone done this before?

[harry d brown jr]

jorge,

I think you should be able to create your own model file. Copy an existing one to a different name and go for it.

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harry

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

I JUST HAD TO TRY IT!

THis is the model file I created (myemail model file):



I set up the LOCAL printer with a special device of /dev/null
#!/usr/bin/sh
# lp interface for emailing
#
#=======================================================================#
# OPTIONS RECOGNIZED: ( none ) #
#=======================================================================#
#########################################################################
PATH="/usr/bin:/usr/lib"
export PATH

# Print the standard header

name=$2
user=`pwget -n $2 | line | cut -d: -f5`

# The remaining arguments are files

shift; shift; shift; shift; shift
files="$*"

# Print the spooled files

for file in $files
do
uuencode $file $file.txt | mailx -m -s "print mail from $name - $user" hbrown@paychex.com
done

exit 0



And the damn thing worked!



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harry

[Jorge Chinchilla]

Harry I tried your script but I have not gotten an email with the data. Am I missing something?

[harry d brown jr]

Jorge,

You first have to make sure you can email from your server to yourself. Of course replace the hbrown (AT) paychex.com with your email address.

So from the unix prompt on that server try this to see if mail can move from your server to your mail server:


uuencode /etc/hosts hosts.txt | mailx -m -s "host file" JORGESemail@where_ever.com

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harry

[harry d brown jr]

Jorge,

Any luck??

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harry