On 07/13/2012 11:14 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> anyone has any tips what's best way to execute a script via email ? > > use procmail - it's easy and actually works. you can do basically > everything with procmail. > > This question is off topic, dovecot is not SMTP agent. > >> I have a wget script that fetches some pages, and, emails me the output, >> there is no paramters passed, it's all in the script >> I'll like to email in and action the script to get the results email >> > > use procmail and possibly formail to execute anything and optionally > reply the result > > man procmailrc > man procmailex > man formail > > make sure procmail is actually executed on your mail system. depends > of your MTA.
Are you willing to recommend procmail without any warnings/disclaimers whatsoever? <quote src=" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procmail "> Stable release <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle> 3.22 / September 10, 2001 [...] Procmail is widely used on Unix <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix>-based systems and stable, but no longer maintained; users who wish to use a maintained program are advised to use an alternative MDA, </quote>
