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Top Forums Programming Users to submit email for ftp creation Post 303000564 by rbatte1 on Friday 14th of July 2017 11:49:50 AM
Old 07-14-2017
If the above line is added into /etc/aliases and a command newaliases is run, then any mail arriving at your server for sftp will cause the script /path/to/script to be run with the email as standard input.

You can do something dull with it, so the script could just be as short as:-
Code:
dd of=/var/spool/requests/$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S).$$

.... which will write the email to a timestamped (and process id) spool file that something else could be watching for.

You would still need to be able to read through the email and decipher what the request was, but then you can create the account and send them a reply fairly easily.



Does that help?
Robin
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

snnewgroup

snnewgroup.v0.3.8(8)					      System Manager's Manual					      snnewgroup.v0.3.8(8)

NAME

       snnewgroup - create a new sn newsgroup

SYNOPSIS

       snnewgroup newsgroup [server] [port]

DESCRIPTION

       snnewgroup creates newsgroup assigning it an upstream NNTP server of server:port.  If port is not specified, defaults to 119.  If server is
       also not specified, newsgroup is created as a local group which is fed only by articles POSTed to it.

       You will need to be root or own /var/spool/sn in order to add new groups.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       SNROOT If this is set and is not empty, the value is used in place of /var/spool/sn, the default news spool directory.

FILES CREATED

       /var/spool/sn/newsgroup
	      Directory where articles will be stored.

       /var/spool/sn/newsgroup/.created
	      Empty file for the newsgroup creation time.

       /var/spool/sn/newsgroup/.serial
	      Where snget gets its idea of the new starting serial number for newsgroup on server server:port.	The value is initialized to 0.

       /var/spool/sn/newsgroup/.outgoing
	      If server is specified, is a symlink to  /var/spool/sn/.outgoing/server:port, which is a directory, created if it does  not  already
	      exist.  If server is not specified, no file /var/spool/sn/newsgroup/.outgoing will be created.  See also snsend.

SEE ALSO

       sndelgroup, snsend

N.B.								    Harold Tay						      snnewgroup.v0.3.8(8)
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