starting script when getting mail

[Guest_imported]

I would need to start a script when I get a mail And have no idea how this can be done can someone help me?

 

[Annihilannic]

VictorII,

I'm not sure whether this will work for you, and I presume you have to use sendmail rather than MMDF for it to work, but we have a paging application that uses the sendmail aliases file (/etc/aliases or /usr/lib/mail/aliases) with an entry such as:

[tt]pager: "| /usr/local/bin/mailpage"[/tt]

This diverts every mail from the imaginary user 'pager' to that script.

Do a man aliases for (a little) more information on the file.

Annihilannic.

Annihilannic.

 

[GOSCO]

Ive done this before!

Your looking to run a script at intervals (crontab) to check for a size change in you inbox folder in particular an increase! If this happens then run your little script.

If you tell me what mail server you run I will help you...
What does the script do?
Andy
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[Guest_imported]

I managed to solve the problem (I used alias to redirect the mail to the script as standard input) Thanks for the help everyone