On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 10:14:55PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully expounded: > > On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > > I'm trying to find a solution where I can take an incoming email and > > have something, an external program, parse the data as it arrives and > > pipe the necessary information through to a database, say MySQL... > > Basically we receive orders over the net and every order placed > > generates an email. That email I would like to parse, extract the > > necessary information and shove it into a database, automatically, with > > no user interaction. (such script I will write of course) > > > > Anyone have any suggestions? >
[snip] > > # invoked from /etc/aliases like this > # checkpoint_pager: [EMAIL PROTECTED], > "|/home/cgalpin/bin/checkpointMonitor.pl" > # > # or from procmail like this > # | /home/cgalpin/bin/checkpointMonitor.pl > # > Ashley, I did much the same thing, and then set up a PHP-driven HTML page to look over the results loaded into the database. The key is to set up a procmail recipe that captures this mail and pipes it to the perl script. SInce the outgoing mail is to many different people, I guess you would need to BCC: a constant address you would pick up in the procmail recipe. One ignorant question: Can't you modify the process that generates the email to update the database directly? -- Tom Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
