We use a free mailer for Windows called blat.  Our bootstrap notification
looks like this:

blat - -s "Bootstrap Notification" -t xxx AT xxx DOT com,yyy AT yyy DOT com

I don't know where to find blat but it's available for download somewhere on
the internet.

Hope this helps,
Dave

Dave Werth
UPS Aviation Technologies
(formerly: II Morrow, Inc.)
Salem, Oregon
iim1dfw AT at.ups DOT com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deb [mailto:deb AT TICKLEME.LLNL DOT GOV]
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 1:31 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] Windoze Owner Notification
> 
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I haven't seen this question here before, so here goes.  I know a
> sysadmin who runs his NW server on a Win 2k box.  He would 
> like to utilize
> the Owner Notification facility (a "hidden" attribute).  
> Being the unix
> geek that I am, I only know the unix way of doing this.  By 
> way of example,
> 
> Owner Notification: /usr/bin/mailx -s "Backup Notification" 
> user_name AT dom DOT ain
> 
> But, on a Windoze NW Server, I'm uncertain how he might want 
> to proceed.
> 
> If it were me, I'd write some kind of perl script to take the email
> address as an arguement and send SMTP mail wherever it needs to go.
> 
> I don't think he's got the Perl skill (yet) to tackle this, 
> although it
> wouldn't really be all that hard.  
> 
> Bottom line question: Is there a less labor-intensive way to 
> do this on
> the ubiquitous Windoze platform...?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> deb
> 
> 
> 
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