Comments on: How to Run a Script from Email http://www.techniqal.com/blog/2005/11/14/how-to-run-a-script-from-email/ the Q stands for quality Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:24:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Daniel http://www.techniqal.com/blog/2005/11/14/how-to-run-a-script-from-email/comment-page-1/#comment-10623 Daniel Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:33:13 +0000 http://www.techniqal.com/blog/?p=48#comment-10623 Sorry -just caught this Kyle. Depending on where the mail lives, you could always schedule a cron job to script to go fetch mail, and based on content of the mail, run a command. The script would just use existing *nix tools for text matching/processing(grep,sed/awk). The benefit to the method I describe here, is that you don't have to worry about the mail handling piece in you script. The script takes the mail content as stdin, and works with it as it comes in. If you are comfortable with perl, python, or php, all 3 have fairly mature email libraries that would allow you to fetch and parse the emails from some other server source (IMAP, POP3, etc.) . Hope that helps. Sorry -just caught this Kyle. Depending on where the mail lives, you could always schedule a cron job to script to go fetch mail, and based on content of the mail, run a command. The script would just use existing *nix tools for text matching/processing(grep,sed/awk).

The benefit to the method I describe here, is that you don’t have to worry about the mail handling piece in you script. The script takes the mail content as stdin, and works with it as it comes in.

If you are comfortable with perl, python, or php, all 3 have fairly mature email libraries that would allow you to fetch and parse the emails from some other server source (IMAP, POP3, etc.) .

Hope that helps.

]]> By: Daniel http://www.techniqal.com/blog/2005/11/14/how-to-run-a-script-from-email/comment-page-1/#comment-10645 Daniel Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:33:13 +0000 http://www.techniqal.com/blog/?p=48#comment-10645 Sorry -just caught this Kyle. Depending on where the mail lives, you could always schedule a cron job to script to go fetch mail, and based on content of the mail, run a command. The script would just use existing *nix tools for text matching/processing(grep,sed/awk). <br><br>The benefit to the method I describe here, is that you don't have to worry about the mail handling piece in you script. The script takes the mail content as stdin, and works with it as it comes in. <br><br>If you are comfortable with perl, python, or php, all 3 have fairly mature email libraries that would allow you to fetch and parse the emails from some other server source (IMAP, POP3, etc.) .<br><br>Hope that helps. Sorry -just caught this Kyle. Depending on where the mail lives, you could always schedule a cron job to script to go fetch mail, and based on content of the mail, run a command. The script would just use existing *nix tools for text matching/processing(grep,sed/awk).

The benefit to the method I describe here, is that you don’t have to worry about the mail handling piece in you script. The script takes the mail content as stdin, and works with it as it comes in.

If you are comfortable with perl, python, or php, all 3 have fairly mature email libraries that would allow you to fetch and parse the emails from some other server source (IMAP, POP3, etc.) .

Hope that helps.

]]> By: Kyle http://www.techniqal.com/blog/2005/11/14/how-to-run-a-script-from-email/comment-page-1/#comment-10614 Kyle Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:06:07 +0000 http://www.techniqal.com/blog/?p=48#comment-10614 Can you think of a way to have a bash script check email and then do something if it sees keywords in the email? Can you think of a way to have a bash script check email and then do something if it sees keywords in the email?

]]> By: Kyle http://www.techniqal.com/blog/2005/11/14/how-to-run-a-script-from-email/comment-page-1/#comment-10644 Kyle Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:06:07 +0000 http://www.techniqal.com/blog/?p=48#comment-10644 Can you think of a way to have a bash script check email and then do something if it sees keywords in the email? Can you think of a way to have a bash script check email and then do something if it sees keywords in the email?

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