Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I want to write a script that will read mail ( for eg: from abc.def@yahoomail.com ). And if it finds a particular subject then do something..

Is it possible....

Please help...
Thanks in adv..

Look into procmail. It's a big subject, be prepared to read quite a bit, but it's certainly possible to do what you want with it.

Its quite possible, PM me if interested in a PERL solution

seen procmail. but i cannot install procmail to the sysatem....
can anyone give me some code to accomplish this..

Thanks

Which Operating System?
Which shell?
Which mail program?

operating system: unix HP
shell: ksh

Dont know anything bout mail program....

Thanks,

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Can anyone help me out in writing shell script to read mail.

Thanks..

Add an alias in /etc/mail/aliases like the following
user: user, |/usr/user/myprocess

Run "newaliases"
Send an email to user . The entire email including headers will be used as standard input to the "myprocess" script.
The my process script should look something like:

while read line
do
if [ "a`echo $line|cut -c 1-8`" = "aSubject:" ]
#we add the "a" to the beginning of the test to ensure that the argument is not null
then
test=`echo $line|cut -d":" f2`
if [ "a$test" = "aGOODEMAIL" ]
then
run_my_script
fi
fi
done