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From: Ian Fink <fink@arlut.utexas.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Finger command to trigger mail download...
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 12:04:30 -0600
Organization: Applied Research Laboratories - The University of Texas at Austin
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Sean Rolinson wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am wondering if anyone has heard of a finger command to trigger
> email download, and how to accomplish such a task.
> 
> One of our customers is looking to finger an address at our location
> and that finger would then cause a program to locally be run (like
> sendmail -qRblah) that would deliver mail.  I am wondering if such a
> beast already exists and where I might find it.
> 
> Any info or suggestions would be greatly appreciated...
> 
> TIA...
> 
> Sean Rolinson
> snowdog@charm.net

GNU's finger allows you to run a shell script when fingering
a specific user :)  You might look into that.

Ian Fink
fink@arlut.utexas.edu