Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!dptg!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!grapevine!male!texsun!convex!datri From: datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: messages, eatmail and other miscellany Message-ID: <109036@convex.convex.com> Date: 20 Nov 90 17:08:20 GMT References: <9011161944.AA26842@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu> Sender: usenet@convex.com Organization: Convex Computer Corporation; Richardson, TX Lines: 18 >I run Nathaniel's eatmail program in a particular context: My mail is >delivered to a general-purpose (and oftimes overloaded) machine, Eatmail is indeed a fine program, but it does require ATK on the spool machine, which isn't available in my case. So, at first I wrote an eatmail-inspired program that did the same thing, learning all kinds of disturbing things about mkstemp in the process. This I ran by setting the AMSMailCollectionCommand preference to rsh it, but I found this to be slow (because of the rsh). I got a better idea (for me, at least) from someone's post on another group -- I wrote a [really simple] program that gets run as a pipe out of my .forward. It generates a filename in ~/Mailbox by concatenating its process-id and the time -- in my case, this should be enough to ensure unqiueness, since we have site-wide aliases with an entry for each user pointing to his/her home machine. -- datri@convex.com