[Mimedefang] Watching for a certain e-mail address

Kees Cook kees at osdl.org
Mon Sep 22 02:45:00 EDT 2003


On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 03:16:22PM -0700, Jeff Powell wrote:
> There have been a couple of times in the past when I really want to know
> the instant I receive a particular e-mail that i"ve been waiting for.
> Can MIMEDefang be used for this?  What I want to do is monitor for a
> certain incoming e-mail address (or list of addresses) and then send a
> very short e-mail message to my pager telling me that is has arrived.
> Does anyone have a filter that can do this?  I haven't yet mastered the
> art of creating MIMEDefang filters, and all my efforts so far have
> failed.

It can (since it's perl and you can code it to do whatever you want), but 
"procmail" (with possibly "formail") may be better suited to your needs.  
(And it's likely to already be installed.)

http://www.procmail.org/

-- 
Kees Cook
Open Source Development Lab
kees at osdl.org



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