Print-to-Mail

[Sean]

If you want to get fancy you could postscript or pdf them than attach
them. That way if you ever want fancier output then just plain text you
wouldnt have to mess around with it again.

Also it would allow for job submissions to different printers, as well as,
other things like print times, sent times, header pages, etc.

It depends on how much you want to play with it. =)

although I am not seeing a huge advantage over lpr except you wouldnt have
to leave the port open.

Sean


On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Dpk wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 11:55:03AM -0400, Paul_Melson@keykertusa.com wrote:
>
>    I'm looking to configure an lpd-style print queue, which instead of
>    printing jobs submitted to the queue will deliver them via
>    sendmail/postfix.  I figured it would be worth my while to see if
>    anyone knows of an existing project that does this or something
>    very similar before I begin to re-invent the wheel.  Searches of
>    Freshmeat and Tucows were fruitless.  I figure that a
>    store-and-forward type queue with no real printer defined would be
>    a good place to start, and from there just build a script that
>    would mail out each file in the queue directory and then unlink
>    them.  The files will be text from Solaris/Oracle systems, so they
>    shouldn't require any filtering or MIME encoding before sending
>    them out.  Can anyone see any problems I'm likely to encounter in
>    setting this up?
>
> Probably could make a wrapper for this:
>
> mailx -s "My Subject" receiver@domain.com < filename
>
> Dennis
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