I've actually done that, though I no longer have access to the system where it sits... You're right, it is easy. Set up an alias in /etc/aliases:<br><br> mail2xymon: "|/usr/local/bin/mail2xymon"<br><br>
then run "newaliases" to 'compile' the db file for sendmail. The script can be any language you're comfortable with, including Cobol or Fortran if that's what floats your boat. All you need to know is that when it starts up, the email appears on <stdin>. You get headers first, in no particular order, probably including "From:", "To:", "Subject:" and "Date:". For example:<br>
<br><pre> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:58:35 +0200<br> From: "Nikesh Maharaj" <<a href="mailto:NMaharaj@tcta.co.za">NMaharaj@tcta.co.za</a>><br> To: <<a href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk">hobbit@hswn.dk</a>><br>
Subject: [hobbit] Backup exec<br></pre><br>A blank line separates the headers from the body of the email, which can contain just about any form of text.<br><br>Ralph Mitchell<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Matthew Moldvan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mmoldvan@csc.com">mmoldvan@csc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">If you're using Sendmail, you can setup
an alias to receive those messages and pipe them to a shell script. Based
on your parsing of the mail message in that shell script, you can send
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<br><tt><font size="2">I didn't get a list, just empty search results.<br>
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On 11/19/09, Asif Iqbal <<a href="mailto:vadud3@gmail.com" target="_blank">vadud3@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Nikesh Maharaj <<a href="mailto:NMaharaj@tcta.co.za" target="_blank">NMaharaj@tcta.co.za</a>>
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>> I am currently running BackupExec v12.5 . is there any way I can<br>
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> </font></tt><a href="http://www.deadcat.net/search.php?menuosfamily=0&menulicense=0&menusection=17&filtermdate=&filterdescription=backup+exec&menuNoPerPage=20&action=search&Filter=Filter" target="_blank"><tt><font size="2">http://www.deadcat.net/search.php?menuosfamily=0&menulicense=0&menusection=17&filtermdate=&filterdescription=backup+exec&menuNoPerPage=20&action=search&Filter=Filter<br>
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