Re: Mail client - run a program when receive an email

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On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 09:46 -0800, Hardy Merrill wrote:
> For every email I receive I'd like to run a program
> and have the program have access to the data in the
> email.  It's been a while since I've used email on Red
> Hat/Fedora (I got lazy and have been using yahoo mail)
> - I used to use mutt with fetchmail and procmail but
> never used that combination for anything like this. 
> Can it do that?  Can procmail kick off a program and
> give the program the contents of the mail as input?
> 
> What other email clients can do that?  Can evolution?
In Evolution you can set up a filter that pipes each email to a program
and can then act on the value returned.

> 
> TIA.
> 
> Hardy Merrill
> 
> 
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