Thanks Guys,
At this stage we haven't got past the /etc/shell hurdle, but will do when required.
What we actually want to do is process the mail after mail has arrived. We want to be able to run some sort of script to find any particular piece of mail by passing the subject, date and sender...
Hi Guys,
Thanks again for taking the time to offer your expertise on this subject. I have now been asked to look further into deleting unix mail by subject,sender and date so I am back in the hope that you can offer me more help.
Steve, you mentioned that the mail tool was the best option...
Hi Guys,
While we're on the subject of mail, any ideas about automating the following:
searching unix mail by subject and/or sender and date
and then deleting it.
Should I start a new forum?
Cheers Ang
Steve,
Thanks for your reply. At this stage I will go with what we have, but I will keep the elm in mind just in case.
Mike,
I have been playing around with the .forward, but at this stage I have hit a brick wall. Currently we do not have the /etc/shell set up at our clients' site so I am...
Thanks Mike,
I will have a play around with that today and let you know if I have any issues.
Steve,
Thanks for your suggestion too, I'm not sure how or where you set up the flags you indicated, but I'd be interested in finding out some more. I want to try a number of solutions to see which...
Hi Mike,
Your first suggestion was to pipe the mail through a shell script as it arrives. How would you go about doing this? Is there any documentation you could point me to?
Thanks Ange
Hi All,
Is there an easy way of searching through standard unix mail for a subject and then saving the content of the mail message to a file?
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Hi All,
Currently we have quite large files being ftp'd to our unix server. Our unix server has a process which checks for the existence of the file and if it is found it is processed.
How can we be sure that the file transfer has completed and that the process is actually processing the...
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