[aklug] Re: e-mail scripting

Yeah, I glossed over "server-side", because my client system is also a mail server, because it's easier.

That said, I believe you can use pipe expansion in your .forward to deliver to procmail, and set up rules from there.

There are also plenty of pop3/IMAP support libs for python and Perl, which you could use to grab emails that matched certain rules.

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Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> wrote:
On 12/31/2012 05:10 PM, Leif Sawyer wrote:
> Piped aliases work great with postfix and sendmail.  Been using them for years.
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> It simply delivers the entire message to the script on stdin, so you can do all your processing in whatever language you like.
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> Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> wrote:
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> Is there anyone else on the list who plays around with scripted
> management / filtering / manipulation of incoming e-mail (i.e., as a
> client, not server-side stuff)? If so what tools do you use? (E.g., what
> e-mail client do you use? How do you pass e-mails to your scripts? What
> languages / utilities do you use?)
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> Lately I've been in an "automate or die" mood and I've been trying to
> apply that mentality to my incoming e-mail. For example, every week I
> usually get church bulletin documents e-mail to me, so I manually
> convert them to PDF, and upload them to the church Web site. But now I'm
> trying to automate that.
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> I've been trying to bend Thunderbird to the task, but it isn't really
> designed for automation and scripting. With filters and a few add-ons
> (like AutoExtract) I have been able to make some progress, but it is
> rather clumsy work.
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That's on the server side, yes? Or do I misunderstand? I DO NOT want to
mess with my e-mail server config whatsoever.
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