Re: [cobalt-users] Handling email by PERL

[Elmer Fuddpucker <elmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 24 May 2001, Steve Churcher wrote:

} Im hoping someone can help.. I would like to pass a certain email address
} through to a perl script for manipulation - eg an automated system.

Nothing to it. You do this via the pipe command in your /etc/alias
file:

Alias:  "|/path/to/perl/script"

	You'll need to run newaliases after adding the code to the
/etc/aliases file.

	It's not quite as slick, but you can also do this with
procmail on virtual host basis (the proceedure above is server
wide). The syntex is a bit different. Typing man procmailex at the
prompt should provide the clues you need though.

	I'm not that bright so having a working example tends to
make life easier on me when I set out to learn this kind of thing.
And when I did just that I grabbed a copy of mailback.pl from a link
I found on http://freshmeat.net. A search there for Mailback ought
to lead you to the script - it's open source. Chop off what you
don't need and put your code in it's place.

	hth

	brent

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