[ale] using sendmail to populate a database

[yahoo at jimpop.com (Jim Popovitch)]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 09:29, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to add a filter to sendmail to take the content of an
> email, based on a particular email address, and insert it into a
> database.  What I would like to do is have sendmail call a perl script
> that does the database insert.

You could have Sendmail use procmail for local delivery (probably the
default on most systems), then have a procmail recipe that calls a
perl script.

-Jim P.