Hi All,
I wonder if anyone has an example of sending mail to a perl script. I
want to set up a mail alias that takes the mail message and passes it to
a perl script where it is further processed.
I am using sendmail 8.7.4, with IDA. In the alias file I tried:
test: "| /usr/bin/cat > /tmp/test"
This works OK.
I then created a perl script that takes stdin and writes it to a file. I
can test it from the command line, ie:
cat mailfile | test.pl
and it works OK.
When I change the xaliases file to:
test: "| /usr/local/mail/bin/test.pl"
I get error messages from sendmail:
----- The following addresses have delivery notifications -----
"| /usr/local/mail/bin/test" (unrecoverable error)
(expanded from: <test_at_pp.nsw.gov.au>)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
/usr/local/mail/bin/test: /usr/bin/perl: cannot execute
554 "| /usr/local/mail/bin/test"... unknown mailer error 1
I have tried without success sending mail to a script starting with:
#!/usr/bin/perl, and with:
#!/bin/sh
eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl -S $0 ${1+"$_at_"}'
if 0;
(As per the perl book).
At this stage, I am lost, and would really appreciate it if someone could
show me how to send mail to a perl script.
Regards,
Garry.
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