Re: [cobalt-developers] (no subject)

[Herb Rubin <herbr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ma,

You can do this with Procmail.

Sendmail hands off the email message to procmail at the last minute.
Procmail is responsible for putting it in the user's mailbox.

So, create a .procmailrc file in their home directory. In there you can
specify that you want a program to be run with this code:

:0c W
* .*
! /usr/bin/yourprogram


Then the entire email message will be passed to yourprogram through
STDIN one line at a time.

Herb


ma wrote:

> Hi Cobalt-developers,
>
> I have a little problem. You might have a quick advice for my issue that is
> givin me a lot of pressure.
>
> I need to resolve this nice problem using sendmail.
>
> Basically I need to say to sendmail that as soon as it receive an email in a
> pop3 mailbox it must generate an autoreply message. A kind of vacation
> e-mail. The point is that when the autoreply is generated it must execute a
> script which will process some code and send an e-mail with the result of
> the process attached.
>
> The script will execute a connection to the many whois database in the world
> and execute the whois query using the whois protocol. I have already done
> that using php with the use of classes. Fucking hard man. Unfortunately PHP
> has been the wrong choice... anyway. I think I'll use PERL or C. I am
> running out of time... sigh!!!
>
> Do you know if sendmail can offer this utility or I need to find a special
> MTA/MUA.
> If sendmail can do that, can you advice me about where to find information
> to resolve this problem and what quicly I should do.
>
> I had some inputs from the mailing list but I would like to see what you
> think about this as well.
>
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> -----------------------
> You can invoke your script from an entry in ".forward".
>
> If you want this for all users, an alternative would be to write your
> own local delivery agent that runs your script after delivering.
> Your special delivery agent could pass of the message to the standard
> delivery agent for the actual delivery.
>
>  -NWR
>
> man forward
>
> Usually this is set via ForwardPath, see doc/op/op.*
>
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>
> Massimo Amelio
> Jelok IT Ltd
> London UK
> +44(0)7946115945
>
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