Re: Auto-processing email? From Queue? Or pipe?

surgemail-listnetwinsite.com wrote:
> Does anyone know whether the mdir implementation in
surgemail has a stable enough implementation do do something
like this?  I'm worried that this is considered an internal
format and might change in the future....
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Mike
> 

It is definitely considered 'internal' there are already two
layouts for 
those files based on settings.

Delivering to a robot is the reliable way to do it.
	use a redirect rule and prefix the address with | to make
surgemail run 
the program and pipe the message to it on stdin....
		to="|/usr/local/surgemail/script.perl ... "

Regards,
Stuart

> "Mike Bridge" <mikebridgecanada.com>
wrote:
>> I want to have something process individual emails
as soon as possible after they come in to 
>> a particular surgemail account.  I can see two
possible ways of doing this with surgemail on 
>> windows: one is to pipe each incoming email through
a command, and the other is to monitor 
>> the mdir folder for new email.  
> 
>> It seems like accessing the mdir folder directly
would be an easy way to do this, but I'm 
>> wondering if it is a good to move the messages out
of the mdir folder for processing.  Will 
>> this cause any complications?  And are the emails
in any weird format or anything---it looks 
>> like I can read them with an .eml reader.
> 


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