Paul,
Thursday, December 12, 2002 you wrote:
PI> 1. Travel agent sends a email to client with internaery as a .txt
PI> file. This is not Imail it is sent from a Res system.
PI> 2. Agent adds a address to the program alias in the cc of email.
PI> 3. Email is read by program and entered in to a DB.
PI> Anyone done something like this???
Yes.
PI> What would be the best way to go about it???
program alias.
PI> I think I can read the text from the file and enter it into the DB
PI> but i am not sure on the setup with Imail.
PI> Do i setup an alias that forwards to the program alias?
I like to use bat files like this -
Program alias:
myprogram
C:\somedir\myprogram.bat
myprogram.bat:
rem do some stuff if you need to
rem the %1 is the message file
cd c:\proggies
myprogram.pl %1
rem or whatever flavor you like to program
or you can go directly - using Perl you'd do something like:
"C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe c:\proggies\myprogram.pl"
(no need for the %1 here of course)
PI> Do i need a MBX for this to store the mail as it is read?
Whoops I may not be understanding. Your program has to parse the
message, extract any contents, including any attachments, and then
do with it whatever you need.
HTH -
Terry Fritts
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