"Mxsmanic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| What do I have to do to make a simple Perl script filter incoming mail for a
| mailbox? I wrote a script that just reads standard input and writes it to
| standard output, then put it in my home directory, then changes
| /etc/mail/aliases to point to it, like this:
|
| mymail: "|/usr/home/mymail/perlfilter"
I know that seems like the way it should work . . . but it's not. What that
does is just pipe the message to your script---and at that point, sendmail is
done. The output from your script went into the bit bucket.
What you're going to have to do is open up a sendmail process. You can do
something like this in your Perl script, though:
open( MAIL, "| /usr/sbin/sendmail" );
print MAIL $headers;
print MAIL $body;
close MAIL;
Your headers will have to have all the relevant information, and be separated
from the body with a blank line.
Good luck with that.
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