[CLUE-Tech] using procmail to send a message to a script?

Todd Williams todd at crashonline.org
Mon Oct 21 01:39:34 MDT 2002


Dave Price wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a procmail recipe that can identify a specific message and move
> it to a folder, but I would like to send it thru a perl script  before
> sending it to the folder.  
> 
> The perl script strips all the ads out of the message and retains just
> the pertinant text from the body - any idea how to go about this.
> 
> (The perl code is written to read and write from STDIN and STDOUT)
> 
> aloha,
> dave

use a pipe symbol at the beginning of the action line in procmail
something like:

:0:
* procmailrecipe
| perlscript >> folder

Todd Williams




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