E-Mail Filtering

[chammock]

A definite newbie here.

I was told that an application I am working on will be running on a Linux box. My need is to have an email server running on the box to accept emails from the field. The emails will have a .txt file attached that I need to filter to different directories based on the From email address.

Does this sound doable? Can you point me to some resources?

Thanks so much!

[Gweedo]

I would suggest posting this same topic in the Programming/Scripts area.

Alot of people their will have information on your topic.

It is doable. Probably many ways to do it.

Are you in the oil business? Curious, because they like to use the statement "retrieving data from the field"

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[speck]

I've normally used "procmail" to filter email to different directories. If you only need to filter with a simple criteria like the "From" address, then it shouldn't be too difficult for you to set up. If you need to do more complex filtering (including bouncing mail and executing programs), then procmail can be pretty tough to set up correctly. You can follow some of the links to the faqs on http://www.procmail.org/ for some examples.

Speck

[klamath]

Yeah, procmail is pretty much the standard app to do this.

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