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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Run a script based on the subject line of the email Post 302307838 by zedex on Thursday 16th of April 2009 12:11:04 PM
Old 04-16-2009
sorry dude i dont have the source code .. as i left the firm you can search on CPAN about mail parser ( or HTML parser )

in brief application used to convert HTML mail in 2 parts
1 - header
2 - body

and then used simple HTML module to parse subject , cc , bcc and other details
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

mailto.conf

mailto.conf(5)							    Apple Inc.							    mailto.conf(5)

NAME

       mailto.conf - configuration file for cups email notifier

DESCRIPTION

       The mailto.conf file defines the local mail server and email notification preferences for CUPS.

       Each line in the file can be a configuration directive, a blank line, or a comment. Comment lines start with the # character.

DIRECTIVES

       Cc cc-address@domain.com
	    Specifies an additional recipient for all email notifications.

       From from-address@domain.com
	    Specifies the sender of email notifications.

       Sendmail sendmail command and options
	    Specifies  the  sendmail  command  to use when sending email notifications. Only one Sendmail or SMTPServer line may be present in the
	    mailto.conf file. If multiple lines are present, only the last one is used.

       SMTPServer servername
	    Specifies a SMTP server to send email notifications to. Only one Sendmail or SMTPServer line may be present in the	mailto.conf  file.
	    If multiple lines are present, only the last one is used.

       Subject subject-prefix
	    Specifies a prefix string for the subject line of an email notification.

SEE ALSO

       classes.conf(5), cupsd(8), cupsd.conf(5), mime.convs(5), mime.types(5), printers.conf(5),
       http://localhost:631/help

COPYRIGHT

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12 July 2006							       CUPS							    mailto.conf(5)
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