Hello,

Like many Unix shops, Our systems send Email alerts whenever things break. I have been tasked with writing a shell script to get the email alerts from Sendmail, extract the Date / Time, From, Subject, and message text from the emails and punch them into a MySQL DB. This will then be parsed and used to generate Error Stats and SLA reports.

My problem is I can't seem to find any info or blurb of code on how to extract this info from a Sendmail using a shell script, and my O'Rielly Sendmail book is MIA.

Anyone out there have any expierience with this and/or could guide me in the right direction?


Thanks in Advance,


ChrisA.