Well on a FreeBSD/Unix system you can use the .forward to pipe the incoming mail for a user to a program. Below is the contents of my .forward that invokes procmail.
"|/usr/local/bin/procmail -m /path/to/conf/.procmailrc" So I imagine you could do something like this in a .forward. "|/path/myprogram.py" SPJ wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to create new tickets in the ticketing system using > python. When I receive new email from a particular address, I have to > trigger the python script and parse the mail in required format. > > The main hurdle here is, how to invoke the script on arrival of new > mail? I checked the outlook settings and found that it supports only > microsoft VB script and Jscript. Is there any other way? I mean, if I > make a daemon, how will it be notified of new mail? Is there any > python module that does this? > > I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this, since it is also > a microsoft related question. But any help is appreciated. > > Thanks, > SPJ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try > it now. > <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51733/*http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ%20> > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
