Mail client - run a program when receive an email
David Malcolm
dmalcolm at redhat.com
Wed Nov 10 17:49:19 UTC 2004
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
>
>
>
> __________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page.
> www.yahoo.com
>
>
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list