Mail client - run a program when receive an email

[Hardy Merrill]

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?
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
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> 
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