------------------------------------------------ On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:54:37 -0500, "Steve Lobach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for replying.. > I can put perl on the Win 2000 desktops.. So I could, I suppose, use tk.pm and >Telnet.pm (found on cpan)... So from this point I think I can go forward.. > Out of curiousity is there a mail daemon on the server? We run an encryption application that depends on security and prefer not to have a web server or even to have people logging in at all, but part of our application must have sendmail server (since it is email based) and we have found writing utility scripts to be rather trivial using sendmail. We simply set up an address alias to pipe the message to a perl script, parse the subject line of the email and the from address, this gives us enough authentication as we send the output back to that email address (which we make sure is only an internal email). The subject line contains the arguments to the script (in your case the query string). So then the end user only need know how to send email (which is a pretty common thing ;-)) and know what address to send to, and to put the proper arguments in teh subject line. In general our end user documentation fits on less than a sheet of paper. Naturally this is not time sensitive! (as email isn't) but in general we have fast turn around, under 5 minutes of Groupwise wasn't so slow. This also gives us a log of who is using the utility as the messages to that address can be tracked with the from address.... http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
