Posted by faulkes on 01/02/08 23:52

On Jan 2, 4:56 pm, Bill Bell <Bell....@gmail.com> wrote:
> The subject line is a little too general. I would like you to tell me
> about scripts that can receive email messages and call other scripts
> depending on the content of these messages.
>
> Thanks!

Install Procmail
Configure .procmailrc to pipe incoming mail to a script which parses
the content
you are looking for and take appropriate actions (such as calling
other scripts,
updating a database, etc.)

I use perl to do it, although I imagine you could use php as well.

faulkes

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