Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:14:17 -0500 From: Isetr0 Savi <isetr0@sevicron.com> To: Jie Liang <jliang@ipinc.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD mail Message-ID: <20001011131417.A199@sevicron.com> In-Reply-To: <39E49E1C.CE2C4FAB@ipinc.com>; from jliang@ipinc.com on Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 10:06:36AM -0700 References: <39E49E1C.CE2C4FAB@ipinc.com>
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See answer below... On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 10:06:36AM -0700, Jie Liang wrote: > Hi, > > I have a script which takes STDIN and parses mail into my database, > I want to know how to use a email address to fire my script when a new > mail recieved. > say my email is jliang@ipinc.com > > I'd like to fire my script say myscript when I recieved a mail. > ## Left this in for useful info - real solution below :) # Take a look at maildrop or procmail. Both are in /usr/ports/mail/ if # you have the ports installed. I prefer maildrop, but it's up to you - # either one should do the trick, I believe... ## Actually....you can just put this in your ~/.forward file "|exec /bin/myscript" I'm not sure that the syntax is correct ( i.e. don't know if you need the exec or not) but that pipes your mail into whatever program you specify. And you can always read man forward too :) Good luck! isetr0 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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