Re: Receive, process and send email

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On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, CSB wrote:

> We wish to do the following:
> 1. receive an email with an attachment
> 2. process the email body to get some information from it
> 3. send an outbound email to an email address based on the information
> derived from step 2. The email will include the attachment received in step
> 1
>
> I'm not sure where to start with this one so any suggestions would be
> appreciated.
>

procmail is a good place to start.  There are multiple man pages and
examples.  Experiment with a throw away account til you get it figured
out. It is easy to do strange and unexpected things...

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Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE       jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.rossberry.com
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