1. You do not need any mail program to send email from a Unix box, nor = do you need to setup sendmail.... you can merely script telnet with simple SMTP commands. From a command prompt, and assuming your Unix box can communicate with = the mail server, type: Telnet <mailserver> 25 HELO yourlocal.domain.name=20 MAIL FROM: mailfrom@xxxxxxxxxx RCPT TO: mailto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx DATA Subject:-type subject here- <ASCII DATA - Body of email> . QUIT This should send out an email. Real easy. So, you can have a script build this SMTP command file with the DATA = portion stuffed with the appropriate alarm data, then pipe this SMTP commands = file to Telnet. Here is the caveat, you an not simply redirect this command file to = telnet,=20 i.e. telnet mail.server.com < commands.txt will not work. You need to: 1. create a FIFO or named pipe,=20 2. telnet mail.server.com 25 < FIFOfile 3, Have another script or program echo the SMPT commands to the FIFO. =20 I don't have the exact script handy right now now but I can certainly = dig up if you need it. 2. As for alarm triggering, your best bet may be to look in to Foxboro's Event-driven scripts which is part of the FoxPage package. It will take care of triggering Unix scripts based on I/A alarms. It has many great features like queuing, alarm filtering, and the ability to obtain = individual alarm parameters. Hope this helps. Mark Dumond Sr App Engineer FeedForward, Inc -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] = On Behalf Of Wiggins, Bryan Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 12:02 PM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [foxboro] Opalis and email I want to email a person based on a process parameter. My first =3D question is what should Opalis monitor? I see were file sizes are =3D = options and file changes etc. Can we monitor an individual alarm block =3D = parameter to directly trigger Opalis? I am including our hardware, and =3D = software list to spur ANY solutions. We are presently Using: 51B boxes=3D20 PC AIM server Off platform AIM 3.2 Report Builder 5.1.1 Opalis 4. =20 =20 _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at = your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html =20 foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: = mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=3Djoin to unsubscribe: = mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=3Dleave =20 _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave