Thanks to all. I think procmail will give the most instant gratification.
Edward Iglesias Systems Librarian Central Connecticut State University 860.832.2082 -----Original Message----- From: Bill Moseley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 9:37 AM To: Iglesias, Edward G. (Library) Cc: perl4lib@perl.org Subject: Re: Email and perlscripts On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 09:28:03AM -0400, Iglesias, Edward G. (Library) wrote: > Greetings All, > > I recently inherited a server which crashed. On that server were > several scripts used by a variety of people in my system. One of them > was a script for turning a fund report into a webpage. It would work > by having the Collection Development email a report to a user called > fundlist. On arrival a script would run turning it into a webpage. I > was able to move the script and get it to work fine. Unfortunately I > can only do this manually by issuing a command like > > cat mbox | ./fundlist.pl > > I can't figure out how to automate this. Any ideas? Try procmail. It can pipe an email to a program when it is received. -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
