SPUG: Procmail

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 06:01:27PM -0700, marlin wrote:
>Anybody out there know how to make Procmail pipe an imcoming email
>(with "inventory" as subject) to a Perl script?

I use deliver instead of procmail, and deliver will execute a perl script,
$HOME/.deliver, (or any other language for that matter).  I prefer this to
procmail because (a) I don't have to learn yet another language, and (b) it
gives me a lot more flexibility.  Deliver reads the standard output of your
script to determine what to do with the mail, and you can do anything you
want.

I use it to screen incoming messages for duplicates by maintaining a
history database on message-id:, put mail in separate boxes, etc.

Bill
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