On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 10:51 -0800, Hardy Merrill wrote: > Comments below. > > --- "Scot L. Harris" <webid@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 12:46, 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? The pipe command is your best bet. Kmail also supports this. I use it monitor messages to postmaster. Scan through the mail, pick out the info I want, dump to MySQL table - everytime a mail to the postmaster comes in. (although i am using evolution to write this :S ) > > > > Do you want the program to modify the email and pass > > it on or just > > analyze data in the email? > > I'm thinking of creating a football pool email app - I > know this has probably been done a thousand times > before, but I'd like to do it myself just for fun. > > My thought is to send members of the pool an email > listing all the games, and having each member respond > to the email with their picks. My app would take in > each email and run a script - the script would parse > the email and ... etc. > > So the answer to your question is I just need the > script to analyze the email - at this point I don't > think the script needs to modify the email nor pass it > on. Actually, I do want the email "filtered" (or > sent) to a "football pool" mail box, so the > requirement is: > 1. pipe email to script, and > 2. send email to a specific mailbox > > I plan to install and try Evolution. If I can't get > that to work I'll go the fetchmail/procmail/perl > script/mutt route. > > Thanks! > > Hardy > > > > > If you want to modify the message and pass it along > > in it's modified > > form then you probably want to look at using > > procmail. There are many > > things you can do to a message in procmail including > > modifying headers > > and piping the message through another script or > > program. You can even > > pass just the headers or the body of the message to > > the pipe or the > > whole thing. > > > > In evolution you can pipe the message to a an > > external script or program > > (such as spamassassin) but it will only get a return > > code, you can not > > modify the content of the message through evolution > > filters. > > > > > > -- > > Scot L. Harris > > webid@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > If you would understand your own age, read the works > > of fiction produced > > in it. People in disguise speak freely. > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: > > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. > www.yahoo.com > >
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