Samba PDF Email

[Brett Hamann]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin Bennett" <justin.bennett at dynabrade.com>
To: <nflug at nflug.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 10:39 AM
Subject: Samba PDF Email


> I'm creating a samba printer that will email a PDF, could be usefull for
> emailing POs ect. I have the script and printer setup, I modified the
> script to create a PDF from samba, and had it attach to an email and
> send, rather than save it in a users home directory. It works fine when
> I hard code the to address in the script. I was wondering how to pass an
> email address to samba from windows, so I can then hand it to my script.
> I assume I may need a custom print driver?
>
> My Setup:
> [pdfmail]
>    path = /tmp
>    printable = yes
>    guest ok = yes
>    print command = /usr/bin/emailpdf %s %u
>    lpq command =
>    lprm command =
>
> emailpdf:
> #!/bin/sh
> DATE=`date +%b%d-%H%M%S`
>
>
> OUTDIR=/tmp
> /usr/bin/ps2pdf13 /tmp/$1 $OUTDIR/$2-$DATE.pdf
> chmod 660 $OUTDIR/$2-$DATE.pdf
> sendEmail -m "Emailed PDF" -f xxx at dynabrade.com -t xxx at dynabrade.com -u
> "Emailed PDF" -a $OUTDIR/$2-$DATE.pdf
> rm $1
> rm $OUTDIR/$2-$DATE.pdf
>
> Justin Bennett
> Network Administrator
> RHCE (Redhat Certified Linux Engineer)
> Dynabrade, Inc.
> 8989 Sheridan Dr.
> Clarence, NY 14031
>
>
>
>
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Maybe have the user put the recipient's email in the document, then you
could use awk to pull out "Email:user". I did this to pull out a word
documents title before I fax it.

HTH
Brett




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