Email-Auto-Responder+Web Gateway

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 11:43 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> 	As most of you know (or should, as I've rant'ed about it often enough)
> I don't have any I-net access at work, and sometimes, when ppl point me
> to links, I can't access it. I've been living with a Email-to-Web
> Gateway since someone told me about it (FYI: it's a service where you
> send an email with the URL to the address and it will re-send you the
> page)
> 
> Since I just have Fc3 set-up at home as a email-home-server, I was
> wondering if anyone knows of any scripts which can be used for this
> purpose.
> 
> FYI: Postfix + cyrus IMAP (partially working, still bugs to be ironed
> out)

This should be fairly easy to build yourself, using procmail as a base
to identify URL requests from authorised addresses (i.e. your work
address) and call up formail to create the basis for a reply email, then
curl to actually download the requested URL. Should make for an
interesting evening's project :-)

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>