On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Ing. Juan Carlos Fernandez-B wrote:
Hello!
> here is my problem, my boss receives stuff via mail that he wants to be in
> a database and on the web. obviusly he forwardss it to me so I can cut an
> paste to the web interfase I made to update the database.
> is there a way to catch this email and automate the proccess??
> like setting an spacial mail box that some how delivers to msql and the a
> lite program thet stips the conten and put it in the data base?
> or am I asking to much? am I doomed to cut and paste every day?
Things like that are usually accomplished with procmail
man procmail
which launches some program (i.e. a lite script) to handle the mail.
Good luck,
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