John, Thanks for the reply. I'd be embarrassed to admit how long ago I last used procmail, but I used it to trigger the playing of particular WAV files depending upon who was sending me mail. It sounds like it might be ideal for the type of processing I wish to do without having to necessarily retire Hypermail. To be continued...
Paul On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 4:06:29 PM UTC-4, jcbollinger wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 7:14:20 AM UTC-5, Stephen Gran wrote: > >> It sounds like you're doing data warehousing and searching, which sounds >> like a job for something like a database on the back of an injection >> script that runs when a mail arrives. I suspect puppet is not the best >> tool for processing at all. >> > > +1 > > The right time to trigger an automated response to incoming mail is when > that mail is received. > > Have you looked at procmail? It may be available to you already, as > several Linux distros use it as their mail delivery agent. In addition to > mail delivery (and as its original purpose), however, it is supposed to be > able to process incoming mail on users' behalf and perform more or less > arbitrary operations on it, such as running it into scripts. And if you > want to keep HyperMail, then perhaps you could hook in procmail in front of > it to process incoming messages first, then hand them off. > > > John > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/EiFZ6zaZM60J. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
