Re: how do I run incoming email through a program when balsa downloads it

[Ildar Mulyukov <ildar users sourceforge net>]

Hi, Philip!

18.07.2013 11:44, Philip Hunt пишет:
> What I would like to happen is that Balsa invokes my program like
> this, so it can read ist input from stdin and output it to stdout:
>
>     my_program <incoming_email >processed_incoming_email
>
> where incoming_email is the email as got from the POP3 server, and
> processed_incoming_email is the output that my_program produces (for
> example incoming_email and it may decrypt it).
>
> Is it possible to do this with Balsa?
It is very naturally done with fetchmail+procmail.
Balsa is very weak as MDA, it is MUA. Check terms in Wikipedia, if unsure.
> I'm trying yto do it through "Filter messages through procmail" but
> not having much success. How does Balsa invoke procmail; is it through
> stdin/stdout as above, or some other way -- the documentation isn't
> clear.
Shortly: it doesn't. Where in documentation you've seen procmail refs?

P.S. on "sending" task it is possible to hook your_program into the
Postfix MTA.
P.P.S Balsa is quite faulty in dealing with external MDAs. I've made a
few posts here in list.

Best regards,

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Ildar Mulyukov, 
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