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Re: [PLUG] Automating actions from email
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- From: Isaac Bennetch <bennetch@gmail.com>
- To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
- Subject: Re: [PLUG] Automating actions from email
- Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:59:07 -0400
- Cc: Amul Shah <amul@amulz.com>
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Hi,
On 9/30/2010 9:49 AM, Amul Shah wrote:
At work I get daily emails which I need to act on. Is there a
mechanism in any email client (I use alpine and thunderbird) that can
recognize the email and invoke a shell script or another program?
Procmail does this well. It can be intimidating to set up, but isn't
that bad and I got some good help in #plug (my .procmailrc says so in a
comment!). This is a very powerful solution and works great for me.
At the risk of incurring wrath (though you did say "in any email
client"), Apple's Mail makes this really easy.
~isaac
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