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Re: 2nd mail question :)

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From: "William H. Magill" <magill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: gt4556a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: 2nd mail question :)
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 10:55:46 -0400 (EDT)
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>   Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 23:34:35 -0400
>   From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Ziefle?= <gt4556a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>   Does anybody see a way to execute an external program when new mail has
>   come in?  Events, for example?
>
>   What I wanna do is when new mail arrives, I want to have a little
>   program executed that starts my mailer with the right folder
>   (user-specified if several folders have received mail).
>
What you need is "procmail." It does exactly what you want, plus lots more.

It is a mail filter or local delivery agent. 

You can sort mail via a .procmailrc into all kinds of incoming mail boxes,
run programs on them, etc.

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