On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Nagendra, VU2CLN wrote:
> I am looking to execute a program (actually squid) by sending a mail to
> my linux box and also kill the execution after sometime by emailing
> again to a exim mail user on the system.
> is there any simple way to achive this with just exim or do I need to
> compile or add anything to exim to achive thus
exim = MTA = mail transport agent.
Thus, you may want to take a look into the pipe transport. Together with
some perlery that does proper security checks it should do your job.
hth,
Volker
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