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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Invoke a shell script in case mail with a specific subject is received Post 303000387 by rbatte1 on Tuesday 11th of July 2017 11:16:11 AM
Old 07-11-2017
Perhaps something like:-
Code:
# echo "user.email:   | /usr/libexec/mymailcheck.ksh" >> /etc/aliases
stopsrc -s postfix            # ... or whatever mail server you are using
startsrc -s postfix           # Ditto

Then a script like this as /usr/libexec/mymailcheck.ksh
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
while read line        # Read each line of the email input (including all headers and other stuff you normally never see)
do
   # Work out if we have a subject line and act on the subject
   linetag="${line%% *}"       # Get first word
   if [ "$linetag" = "Subject:" ]
   then
      subject="${line#Subject: }"
      logger "I have a subject \"$subject\""
      # Whatever else you want to do here too.......
   fi
done

Obviously do this on a test server and take a copy of /etc/aliases first.


Does that help at all?
Robin
 

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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

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12 July 2006							       CUPS							    mailto.conf(5)
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