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Re: [PLUG] Automating actions from email
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On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, 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" is a very good tool for this, as it's event-based.
Can you SSH into your mail server? If so, then procmail is likely to work
well for you.
-- Asheesh.
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Excellent time to become a missing person.
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