Piping messages to a program

[ecancil]

Hi, I need to pipe emails sent to a specific email address to a program written in perl, on my server. Is there an easy way to do this?
Thank you
Eric

 

[lgarner]

Simplest: put "| program" in ~/.forward

More complex: use Procmail.

 

[jkupski]

To follow up on what lgarner said, you can also put "| program" into the aliases file, avoiding the need to create a user.