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Re: Need to clear out inbox with procmail

2008-07-21 11:11:22
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Nathan Brown wrote:
I have a script that will extract attachments from emails stored in an an
mbox file. (/var/mail/username).
The following recipe is what I use to run that script whenever an email is
sent to the "upload" address:

:0
* ^TO(_dot_)*upload(_at_)example(_dot_)com
/var/mail/upload
{
  :0
  | /usr/local/bin/upload.sh
}

Why not just skip delivering the mail to the mbox (/var/mail/upload) and
just pipe the body of the e-mail to your script? Then there is nothing to
clean out....

- Charles


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