Re: [Puppet Users] subscribing to a remote mailbox

2012-06-29 Thread Paul Mena
I just thought I'd report that I've implemented a procmail rule to create a transient folder containing only new, unprocessed haiku that is then processed by Hypermail into an HTML file. Further post-processing strips the email header and footer, leaving only the haiku, and concatenates it to

Re: [Puppet Users] subscribing to a remote mailbox

2012-06-27 Thread Paul Mena
John, Thanks for the reply. I'd be embarrassed to admit how long ago I last used procmail, but I used it to trigger the playing of particular WAV files depending upon who was sending me mail. It sounds like it might be ideal for the type of processing I wish to do without having to necessaril

Re: [Puppet Users] subscribing to a remote mailbox

2012-06-26 Thread jcbollinger
On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 7:14:20 AM UTC-5, Stephen Gran wrote: > It sounds like you're doing data warehousing and searching, which sounds > like a job for something like a database on the back of an injection > script that runs when a mail arrives. I suspect puppet is not the best > tool fo

Re: [Puppet Users] subscribing to a remote mailbox

2012-06-26 Thread Stephen Gran
Hi, It sounds like you're doing data warehousing and searching, which sounds like a job for something like a database on the back of an injection script that runs when a mail arrives. I suspect puppet is not the best tool for processing at all. Cheers, On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 05:01 -0700, Paul Me

Re: [Puppet Users] subscribing to a remote mailbox

2012-06-26 Thread Paul Mena
Felix, Thanks for the reply. That's a good point about the potential security hole. Ironically, it would be good news if my ISP doesn't permit it. Here's my task in a nutshell: I've been processing the entirety of an email folder using a program called HyperMail, which converts individual mes

Re: [Puppet Users] subscribing to a remote mailbox

2012-06-26 Thread Felix Frank
Hi, On 06/26/2012 12:30 AM, Paul Mena wrote: > I think the answer is yes, but is it possible for Puppet to subscribe to > an email folder on a remote server? My plan is to perform an action > whenever the mailbox receives a new email message. I suppose you can cobble something up using an exec