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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users use email subject line as shell command Post 61231 by mskarica on Monday 31st of January 2005 10:30:03 PM
Old 01-31-2005
Actually, my dean is a pretty good programmer, at least with shell scripts. He gave me a clue on what to do, so I'll post it for anyone to see.

In the home directory you can put a file named .forward in which you can forward your email. In the .forward file I can forward the emails to a script instead of to another email address. When the email is forwarded to the script, the subject and the body of the email is passed into the script as parameters......something like that......thats where I'm at right now, so I will do some more research on this.

Thanks for the reply tmarikle, I'll look into what you said also. It looks like that would help out also.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

sg

SG(1)								   User Commands							     SG(1)

NAME

       sg - execute command as different group ID

SYNOPSIS

       sg [-] [group [-c ] command]

DESCRIPTION

       The sg command works similar to newgrp but accepts a command. The command will be executed with the /bin/sh shell. With most shells you may
       run sg from, you need to enclose multi-word commands in quotes. Another difference between newgrp and sg is that some shells treat newgrp
       specially, replacing themselves with a new instance of a shell that newgrp creates. This doesn't happen with sg, so upon exit from a sg
       command you are returned to your previous group ID.

CONFIGURATION

       The following configuration variables in /etc/login.defs change the behavior of this tool:

       SYSLOG_SG_ENAB (boolean)
	   Enable "syslog" logging of sg activity.

FILES

       /etc/passwd
	   User account information.

       /etc/shadow
	   Secure user account information.

       /etc/group
	   Group account information.

       /etc/gshadow
	   Secure group account information.

SEE ALSO

       id(1), login(1), newgrp(1), su(1), gpasswd(1), group(5), gshadow(5).

shadow-utils 4.1.5.1						    05/25/2012								     SG(1)
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