arriving email to trigger script?

Hi,

I have an email account which gets messages about once every two days. I want to use the arrival of the script in the inBox to trigger a script instead of running a cron job all the time.

Is this possible or perhaps you know of another way to do this?

Any pointers would be great.

bazz

Bazz ...

I've looked into this before, more from a PHP direction:
http://evolt.org/incoming_mail_and_php?from=50&comments_per_page=50

I think I ended-up stuck because I didn't either have a dedicated (or Virtual) Server,
and I don't have my server. So, with a shared webhosting account, I couldn't do it.

But maybe the link above might steer you into some direction (using .forward file)
Also, read the comments from the users ... some good pointers there?


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Hi,

I have an email account which gets messages about once every two days. I want to use the arrival of the script in the inBox to trigger a script instead of running a cron job all the time.

Is this possible or perhaps you know of another way to do this?

Any pointers would be great.

bazz
take a look over procmail:

http://www.procmail.org/

there are also other mail processors but this what I use, :)

best regards

Thank you both. I'll read up on those links.

bazz