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From: Terry Kennedy <terry@spcunb.spc.edu>
Subject: Re: Finger command to trigger mail download...
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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 21:10:24 GMT

Sean Rolinson <snowdog@charm.net> writes:
> 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.

  Well, you can telnet to the SMTP port and say "ETRN domain.name" if
you're running sendmail 8.8 (included in recent BSDI patch kits).

	Terry Kennedy		  Operations Manager, Academic Computing
	terry@spcvxa.spc.edu	  St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
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