dear monks,
i have a problem that i know might be conceptual :.
I want to retrieve data from another script according to the fact that the stdin is already occupied for another things.

i'll try to explain : i try to make a script for filtering mail and the way i try to use is registering senders into a database. So the mail queue would be piped to the script which extract the headers and compare it to the database. in case the senders is not registred the script would send a registration mail with a link to a cgi script ...
the problem is there .

what kind of solutions may solve it? I just expect few tips to look in the right direction (as you may notice i'm quite new in programmation )

thanks in advance for your advices/help

In reply to retrieve data from another script not from stdin by Ang-st

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