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Old 09-20-2007
Jolly Roger
 
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Default Re: Procmail to Send Email to Programs for Processing

On 2007-09-19 19:51:23 -0500, Gary Morrison <mr88cet@texas.net> said:

> Jolly Roger wrote:
>
>> Have you considered doing it with perl instead? In other words, if
>> procmail absolutely necessary?

>
> I'd most likely have procmail invoke a Perl script, but I don't know of
> any way to make reception of Email trigger a Perl script to run, other
> than to have procmail invoke it. Do you?


If this isn't for a large system, I would probably look into doing it
*all* in Perl (receive the email, grab the attachment, do whatever to
it, send it off again).

What are you needing to do to these attachments, exactly?

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JR

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