Hardy Merrill wrote: > 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. Sounds like a classic example for a .forward file, at least if you can set up a special user for the footy app. Placing a line | /home/footy/footy.sh into /home/footy/footy.sh should do the trick, although depending on your e-mail server, you may need to authorise the server to run it. This looks a reasonable reference: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/244951 Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | Why did the chicken cross the Möbius strip? @westexe.demon.co.uk |
