On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Mat Harrison wrote:
> hi, i am trying to get an email to feed a perl script.
>
> I have aliased the email address to pipe to the program but nothing. What
> variables should I be looking in to get the data that is piped? for example,
> command line arguments are in @ARGV. Is it something to do with $&?
>
> I need to be able to process the body of the message a line at a time, with a
> (theoretically) unlimited number of lines.
When email message is piped into your script you should be reading from
the standard input.
>
> Also, I know it is slightly of topic but could someone just run by me how to
> pipe a sendmail address to a perl script just for confirmation, off list if
> necessary?
Your .procmailrc should look like this
:0
* ^From.*<your_search_pattern>
| <your_perl_script>
your_perl_script to print the message to a file mail.txt
open (MAILTEXT, "mail.txt") or die "....";
while (<STDIN>) {
print MAILTEXT;
}
close (MAILTEXT);
>
>
> cheers guys
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