Re: [CentOS] Receive, process and send email

On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, CSB wrote:

We wish to do the following:

1. receive an email with an attachment
2. process the email body to get some information from it
3. send an outbound email to an email address based on the information

derived from step 2. The email will include the attachment received in step 1

I'm not sure where to start with this one so any suggestions would be appreciated.

procmail is a good place to start. There are multiple man pages and examples. Experiment with a throw away account til you get it figured out. It is easy to do strange and unexpected things...

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