[cups.general] Print queue to act as email queue with report as anattachment

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Nov 30, 2006, at 10:23 AM, Helge Blischke wrote:

> Minatra, Pat H. wrote:
>> On HP-UX we do this by manipulating a /var/spool/lpd/interface  
>> file that
>> calls a Perl script that packages the report into an attachment using
>> MIME LITE and then emails to the address defined in the "interface
>> file".  Each print queue is for a specific email address.
>
> Edit your interface file and make it conformant to the CUPS backend
> calling conventions. That's all you need to do.

....and since those conventions are largely compatible with the System  
V spooler's interface script conventions, you may not need to do even  
that much.

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