[plug] Receiving emails to a script

[Randal Adamson]

Hi,

Has anyone played with receiving emails into a script? I am after some
pointers. I hope to do a script in Perl. From what I can gather I need
to run it in the ~/.forward file with some code like this:

|/path/to/my/script.pl

Looking thru my O'Reilly Sendmail book - they talk about something
called smrsh - and that sendmail has locked down users from using the
.forward file. Which probably has something to do with why I can't get
mine to work properly.

I've been doing a bit of googling and can't seem to get the info I need.

So, any info whether this is the correct way or not would be muchly
appreciated.

Not that it should matter, but I'm using Debian for this.

Many thanks,

Ranz