11-20-2007
Why not setup a mail server in unix?
Then it could be sent straight there!!!
And then you could do something like below:
To point you in the right direction -
You can use /etc/mail/aliases to redirect mail to a script or executable. At that point you will have to parse through it to do everything you've asked.
It sounds like quite an undertaking! I'm sure there are commercial products out there that do similar, but I don't know of any.
Ther format for the aliases file is:
nobody : /my/super_script.sh
This will pass the email to super_script.sh as stdin. I'd love to see the script when you're done with it!
I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to do, but this might be a case, that just because you CAN do it, doesn't mean it SHOULD be done.
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
newaliases
newaliases(1M) System Administration Commands newaliases(1M)
NAME
newaliases - rebuild the data base for the mail aliases file
SYNOPSIS
newaliases
DESCRIPTION
newaliases rebuilds the random access data base for the mail aliases file /etc/mail/aliases.
newaliases accepts all the flags that sendmail(1M) accepts. However, most of these flags have no effect, except for the -C option and three
of the Processing Options that can be set from a configuration file with the -o option:
-C /path/to/alt/config/file Use alternate configuration file.
-oAfile Specify possible alias files.
-oLn Set the default log level to n. Defaults to 9.
-on Validate the RHS of aliases when rebuilding the aliases(4) database.
newaliases runs in verbose mode (-v option) automatically.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Running the newaliases Command
The following command runs newaliases on an alias file different from the /etc/mail/aliases default in sendmail(1M):
example% newaliases -oA/path/to/alternate/alias/file
EXIT STATUS
newaliases returns an exit status describing what it did. The codes are defined in /usr/include/sysexits.h.
EX_OK Successful completion on all addresses.
EX_NOUSER User name not recognized.
EX_UNAVAILABLE Catchall. Necessary resources were not available.
EX_SYNTAX Syntax error in address.
EX_SOFTWARE Internal software error, including bad arguments.
EX_OSERR Temporary operating system error, such as "cannot fork".
EX_NOHOST Host name not recognized.
EX_TEMPFAIL Message could not be sent immediately, but was queued.
FILES
/etc/aliases Symbolic link to /etc/mail/aliases
/etc/mail/aliases.pag
/etc/mail/aliases.dir ndbm files maintained by newaliases
/etc/mail/aliases.db Berkeley DataBase file maintained by newaliases
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWsndmu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
sendmail(1M), aliases(4), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 14 Sep 2001 newaliases(1M)