Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations Chriss Miller on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

email reading

Status
Not open for further replies.

lent

MIS
Joined
Nov 1, 2001
Messages
6
Location
US
Question posed:
Can a script be able to read/parse data from an email to the Aix/Unix system ???

This data would be either part of the message or attached ??

Thanks,

Len T
 
Yip, quite possible. Of course you will need to have a script which will be able to make sense of the input $1, there are a few out there.

To do it you will probably create yourself an email alias in the /etc/aliases file, something like this:

an_alias: |"/path/to/script.sh"

If you want to write the whole email contents to a file its even easier:

an_alias: /var/tmp/a_logfile.log

IBM Certified Confused - MQSeries
IBM Certified Flabbergasted - AIX 5 pSeries System Administration
MS Certified Windblows Rebooter
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top