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Hello all,

Is there a way I can invoke a shell script when ever a new mail is delivered to my account in solaris? Something like .forward file, instead of forwarding it to another email id, I want the email to be passed onto some shell script.

Basically I want to extract the envelop information (Sender email id, subject)
and use them in another shell script.

Thanks in advance.
Atukuri.

It might be outdated, but I think procmail is what you're looking for.

actually .forward can pipe the message through a program, you just need to:

1. copy the script file in /etc/smrsh
2. edit the .forward file to have:

| /etc/smrsh/yourscript.sh

notice the pipe at the begining of the line

this will pipe each mail message to the program.

pipe option worked like a treat.

This is what I have included in my .forward file

\atukuri, "| /home/atukuri/myscript.sh $1"


Thankyou all for your responses.