On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:04:22PM -0600, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> On Jan 24, Jeremy Blosser [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > On Jan 25, Roman Neuhauser [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > > Now, what bugs me about both of these programs: to the best of my
> > > knowledge, neither offers you a real programming language. This can be a
> > > plus, or a minus (YMMV), but imagine being able to write filters using a
> > > full-featured scripting language!
> > 
> > Qmail's .qmail files allow this to be done pretty easily, since you can
> > pipe messages to whatever you want.  All you'd need to do is stick
> > something on the end that can read a message as stdin and deliver it, like
> > the maildir/safecat command.
> > 
> > I have no idea if Postfix/Exim/etc. offer something similar.
> 
> I've been told their .forward will do the same; I wasn't sure before how
> much they allowed.  It's been a while.

Yep, you can use .forward to forward mail to arbitrary programs as
well as other addresses.  Here's how I forward all my incoming mail
through my Mail::Audit script:

$ cat ~/.forward
|/home/walt/bin/audit_mail.pl
$

Walt

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