[plug] Receiving emails to a script

[William Kenworthy]

didnt this sort of thing go out of fashion after security scares a few
years back which is why it was probably disabled?

I think some kind of encryption/digital sig would be critical in this
day and age.  After all, emails are plain text so if someone notices
your embedded commands ...

BillK


On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 16:11, Randal Adamson wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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