[PLUG] email->changelog sort of application

[sean at fork.com]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 09:25:58AM -0800, Stafford A. Rau wrote:

I don't know that they do exactly that however I would look at

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Sean

> Greetings folks,
> 
> I'd like to set up a changelog system for our network devices, one
> that's quick and simple.
> 
> Something like when one of our engineers makes a change to one of our
> routers, then that engineer would send an email:
> 
> ---
> To: changelog at integratelecom.com
> Subject: seattle-7206-2
> 
> Upgraded to IOS 12.1.17 -- Stafford
> ---
> 
> The changelog system would then strip off the mail headers, and append
> the body to the changelog file for seattle-7206-2 (based on the
> Subject:).
> 
> I'd also want to send a "Subject: send seattle-7206-2", and have it reply
> by email with that changelog as the body.
> 
> I'll want to have the changelogs to also be viewable by http, but that
> should be pretty trivial.
> 
> I'm planning on throwing this together with procmail, formmail, and a
> bit of perl, but does anyone know of a package that would do this
> without a lot of work?
> 
> Thanks,
> --Stafford
> 
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