Re: [Exim] Autoresponder for CGI generated emails

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Auteur: Jeffrey Goldberg
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Aan: Joe Frost
CC: exim-users
Onderwerp: Re: [Exim] Autoresponder for CGI generated emails
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Joe Frost wrote:

> We use the Supermail CGI on our web server to email the data from a
> web form [...] The actual email address of the person who downloads
> the software is held in the body of the message


Can you configure yoru CGI to get that into a header? That would solve
your problem.

> It would be great if it was also possible to parse the emails and write
> the information into a database for data mining some time in the future
> but I guess this necessitates the use of external programs.


You won't be able to do that with the exim filter directly. You will need
to pipe the message to a program specifically do to that. Perl is a good
tool for that.

-j

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