Re: mail shell

From: Michael Heiming <michael_at_heiming.de>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:17:46 +0200
Message-ID: <qpcuo9.p1d.ln@charon.heiming.de>

Chuck Hamilton (chuck_hamilton_at_yahoo.com) wrote at Wednesday 26 September 2001 22:21:

> 
> "Bill Marcum" <bmarcum_at_iglou.com> wrote in message
> news:3bb22027_2_at_news.iglou.com...

>>
>> Chuck Hamilton wrote in message

> <9ostdr$et2o0$1_at_ID-85580.news.dfncis.de>...


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>> >"Chuck Hamilton" <chuck_hamilton_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message

>> >news:9ospjg$euile$1_at_ID-85580.news.dfncis.de...

>> >>

>> >Even if you don't know of such a product, any help that you can

>> >offer as to how to write the unix end of this would be

>> >appreciated. For instance, is there a way to execute a custom mail

>> >handler as soon as the message arrives at the unix user's inbox

>> >without having to wait for a cron job to pick it up?
>> >
>> It's called procmail.
>>
>>

> 
> Is this a commercial product or something that comes with certain
> unix distributions? My platform is SGI IRIX-64.

Case the LDA of the receiving system is procmail (many systems running sendmail) it could be called through ~/.procmailrc else use ~/.forward, if you control the mail server, your script could be called through an alias too.

www.procmail.org
("Software is like sex, the best is for free" - Linus Torvalds)

Good luck

Michael Heiming Received on Thu Sep 27 2001 - 00:17:46 CDT