/etc/aliases supports pipes .. means .. you could do something like that in your aliases file
blahuser: popbox, |/usr/local/etc/yourscript voila... easy as breathing Mit freundlichem Gruss Christian Wieczorek [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Maxx Systems, Coburg [ http://www.maxxnet.de ] ----- Original Message ----- From: "ma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 8:51 PM Subject: [cobalt-developers] (no subject) > 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. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > ----------------------- > 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.* > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > ----------------------- > > > > > Massimo Amelio > Jelok IT Ltd > London UK > +44(0)7946115945 > > _______________________________________________ > cobalt-developers mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers > _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
