* On 2002.03.25, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, * "Sven Guckes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Simon White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-03-25 21:22]: > > 25-Mar-02 at 02:00, Sven Guckes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > > seriously - mutt sends email. that's it. > > > if your users don't read their emails right away > > > then they won't notice your message at all. > > It doesn't even do that. [..] > > What Mutt really does is provide a user interface for a > > number of configurable tasks, which generally include > > moving and reading mail, but rarely truly sending mail. > > come on, Simon - no need to be overly > politically or technically correct here.
Of course there is. Yes, you can use mutt to send a message to a bunch of Windows users. However, since mutt barters in e-mail, you need something else to broker e-mail for winpopup messages. If all that matters to you is making the winpopup message, then using mutt only complicates things, but if you're specifically looking for a way to use a mailer to send such messages, then yes, you can do it. I'd suggest getting samba. Writing a small program that takes an e-mail message on its standard input, extracts the sender information, subject, and/or body, and reformats them into a block of text. It can pipe this block of text into an smbclient command (this is part of samba) which will broadcast winpopups to all listening Windows users. Then set up an alias somewhere that pipes incoming mail to this program, and you're set. You'll probably want to add some authenticity checking or point-of-origin checking or something, so that everyone on the internet can't spam messages onto your windows users' screens -- this would be pretty self-defeating. > do you really think they *care* about technical explanations? > exactly. Yes, I do, actually. -- -D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] NSIT University of Chicago
