Hi all,

I have to use launch a shell script that read a mail, extract attached
file and send the attached file to another recipient.

I was wandering if there is a way to get the event for a new mail
somewhere and launch the script or, by polling the event log for the
correct event and execute the script.

I have no idea about the event number and if it's possible.

Thank you for your help

kalsterner [at] gmail.com writes:
> I have to use launch a shell script that read a mail, extract attached
> file and send the attached file to another recipient.
>
> I was wandering if there is a way to get the event for a new mail
> somewhere and launch the script or, by polling the event log for the
> correct event and execute the script.
>
> I have no idea about the event number and if it's possible.
>
> Thank you for your help

You can use procmail program to process messages arriving to mailbox of
OS account. The procmail script may launch other programs/scripts.

See man procmail for details.

P.S. On most linuxes sendmail uses procmail as local mailer.
In such case there is no need to play with ~/.forward file, ~/.procmail
file is sufficient.

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