[email protected] wrote: > Hi, although I don't have a pressing need at the moment, I was thinking > this morning about how to send mail to an account and have a script run > and take an action automatically. The trigger for this was that I get a > mail from time to time which needs me to confirm a valid email address by > following an html link. > I would like to have this processed automatically, but I am unsure of the > best way to proceed. I could have a script run periodically and look at > the mail box designated for this and strip out the html link and follow it > with wget, or maybe to try and set up a pipe which mail can be delivered > to so a script would see the mail as input on std input. > > Are either of these a good approach or is there a better way? My methods > are not exim specific I think, but maybe exim can handle things directly? > > > Regards, > Andrew. > > Windows, for life without walls. > Linux, for life without Windows. > >
Just use a filter. For example, I used to use this in system_filter for Sophos alerts/updates (when they were sent out individually): if $h_from: contains "Sophos Alert System" and $h_to: contains "[email protected]" and $h_subject: contains "Sophos Anti-Virus IDE alert" then unseen noerror pipe "/etc/exim/sophos_update" endif /etc/exim/sophos_update was a script which parsed the email message and downloaded a file from the URL contained in the message. -- Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK E-mail : [email protected] Phone : +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555 -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
