Re: [Exim] Running Commands

| On 11 October 2001, Joseph Kezar said:
| > I am struggling with this one!
| > What I need:
| >   1) When an email is sent to generate_reply@???
| >   2) It needs to run a command (ie /usr/local/bin/generate_reply)
| >   3) This command takes the email message and parses it for vital info
| >   4)  this command needs to be run as root.(so it can chown $user) this
| > newly created files
| > 
| > Is there a way I can set something simple up in /etc/aliases such as:
| >   generate_reply:    |/usr/local/bin/generate_reply
| 
| Yes, that's exactly what you do.  If your messages aren't getting to the
| script, try making it a simple shell script that does this:
|   cat > /tmp/msg$$