At 22:50 2002-04-18 -0400, Jeff Kowalczyk did say:
I would like to have the flexibility to add HTTP headers such as basic
auth, suggesting that I would call a script in perl or preferably
python. However, it isn't a requirement in the short term.
There are a number of auth components in the CPAN archive.
Can anyone recommend a starting point to get this running on RH 7.1?
If you're in control of the website at the far end, you might consider
setting it up so that a script on the website fetches the email - PHP makes
this trivial, or a CGI over there could retrieve the message from a LOCALLY
published location - then all you really need to do is drop the message
into a local spool and hit the webserver with a basic request containing
the name of the local file, and the webserver takes it from there.
In any event, what you want to do is entirely outside the scope of
procmail, beyond this simple bit which will hand the message to whatever
EXTERNAL program or script it is you settle on using:
:0
* someconditions_identifying_the type_of_message_you_process_vs_spam
| somescript options
Where options might be the URL for the remote server or the
username/password for your auth operation. If you need to extract the
attachment, you'll need to run the message through mimencode or similar.
I trust you're not doing this _on_ adelphia, which from my vantage point
seems to have a lot of repeated email problems (incl. "unknown user" when
the account does in fact exist). I manage a coupld of medium-sized mailing
lists (1000 and 4000 users respectively), and I see that frequently with
adelphia.
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Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
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