Depending on which mail system you use, I know for qmail, you can setup a .qmail file to instruct qmail to trigger a script when there's any incomming email.
Tor. Dan Fish wrote: > > I've got a perl script that reads a dozen or so various documents and data > files and generates a custom report for me (Don't we all have a couple dozen > of these? :-) > > All of that is working fine... > > What I'd *like* to do is be able to generate these reports "on-demand" from > remote locations by setting up some sort of email trigger that will run the > script when an email is sent to specially designated address and then return > the results via email > > Has anybody attempted doing something like this?? I would guess I'd need to > use Mail::POP3Client, and a cron script that runs periodically. Other > ideas? > > Thought I'd just ask around, get some ideas, and see if maybe somebody knows > of an existing script to start from before I set off to re-invent the > proverbial wheel. > > Thanks, > -Dan > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
