Automated Email

[Timothy D. Ginn]

Originally Posted by Jack

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However, if there is a way possible, I'd much rather have the script only run when an email arrives as opposed to running it every few minutes.

I'm not exactly sure of the mail server specs, but if that's important, I can get them.
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The way it's done for the mailman software is like this (in my case its in /etc/aliases, but that can vary depending on system setup):

test: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post test"
(with other aliases setup in a similar way passing different paramaters to the mailman binary).