Mail client - run a program when receive an email

[Scott Ryan]

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 10:51 -0800, Hardy Merrill wrote:
> Comments below.
> 
> --- "Scot L. Harris" <webid at cfl.rr.com> 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 at cfl.rr.com
> > 
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> > of fiction produced
> > in it.  People in disguise speak freely. 
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