in reply to .forward

I believe it's either an address or a pipe to a script. There may be more possibilities, but you don't need them for this purpose.

In your case, you'd want to put the following into your .forward: 

|/home/foo/mail.pl

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where /home/foo/ is replaced, of course, by the path to your script.

In the script, then, you can just read the message from STDIN. Look at the thread in question for more info.

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RE: Re: .forward
by Jonathan (Curate) on Apr 20, 2000 at 14:36 UTC
    Further to the above. The ~/.forward file permissions are significant if others have write access it will be not work as the address would be considered unsafe. A .forward file record with a preceding \<user name> will stop any further aliasing stop mail does bounce around. e.g. \<user_name>, |/home/user_name/bin/perl_prog For more info try man sendmail man aliases | forward
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      Sorry about that how lost comments! How is this filtered? Makes me look a bigger fool than usual I'll try this, <CODE> ~/.forward file record example \user_name, |path/command <\CODE>
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