2009/6/3 doug livesey <biot...@gmail.com>: > Hi -- I want to setup an internal web server on an Ubuntu machine that I > will use to trigger scripts when emails arrive with certain addresses. > The emails will be parsed for args to send the scripts, and the scripts will > be written in Ruby. > I've worked on projects before where this has been done, but I wasn't > involved in that side of things, so have no idea where to start looking to > implement it. > Could anyone offer any advice on email server packages that would be good > for this, and maybe pointers to resources I could research to figure out how > to go about it? > Thanks very much, > Doug.
I know procmail can be set up to forward email to a script instead of a mailbox, as implemented on WebFaction's excellent hosting service. The script can then parse the email for whatever information you want and process it accordingly. See https://help.webfaction.com/136 Cheers, Andrew -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
