Perl and Sendmail

Bugorr has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings, I'm trying to set up a script that gets called when sendmail receives email. Can anybody point to a good sample or help with beginning of the script and reading the message itself. Thank you in advance, Bugorr

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Re: Perl and Sendmail by 5mi11er (Deacon) on Aug 12, 2005 at 22:43 UTC
Google for procmail if you're doing this for a specific user account. Done for you. Or, maybe spamassasin if doing this for all mail received on the machine... -Scott	[reply]
Re: Perl and Sendmail by chas (Priest) on Aug 13, 2005 at 12:28 UTC
On Linux, I use a .forward file of the form: `myusername \|/home/myusername/bin/wmail.pl` [download] My wmail.pl file has a line: `@text=<>;` [download] and then I process the contents in various ways (e.g., filtering some messages, putting some in a file I can read in a web browser, etc.) Pretty rudimentary, but it works well for me. chas (Update-remark: The .forward file sends my emails to the usual spool via the first line, and then I can do anything else with it with the script. The first line could be omitted; I included it to have a backup file.)	[reply] [d/l] [select]