[thelist] Reading emails on the fly.........

[Chris Ditty]

Correct.  I know how to run the program when an email is received, but what
format is the email in when the program gets it?  Also, how would I go about
handling the information?

I also forgot to mention that I am using sendmail.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 3:39 PM
To: Chris Ditty; thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] Reading emails on the fly.........


At 12:25 PM 5/21/2002, Chris Ditty wrote:

>I am trying to write a little program that when I send an email to a certain
>address, the program will parse all the information in that email and do
>various
>things with that information.

It depends upon you local mail system. SendMail or Qmail should just pass
the contents of the email to the executed script. At least that's how
SendMail and MajorDomo work.
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Anthony Baratta
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