On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 09:18:23AM -0000, Simon Parkes wrote:

Hi Guys, I know this can be done, but I can't find it in the docs. I want an e-mail send to a particular account to run a batch file that will send the results back to another account. Any ideas or pointers please ??

in /etc/aliases:

someaccount: "| /usr/local/bin/someprog"

Then email sent to someaccount will be piped to /usr/local/bin/someprog

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Simon Parkes wrote:

Hi Guys, I know this can be done, but I can't find it in the docs. I want an e-mail send to a particular account to run a batch file that will send the results back to another account. Any ideas or pointers please ??

Simplest (non-sendmail-specific) solution is to use forward, ie in the account that receives the email put in .forward something like:

\user,"| name_of_batchfile"

...which will save a copy of the email to user's account and also pipe it to the batchfile (which should then email the results).

I think. I could be wrong (and probably am).

Andrew.