Incoming mail with sendmail

Hi,

Im trying to execute a php script when an e-mail is sent to a specific address.

Im using a .forward file in my root directory which consists of the following:





This works fine , as soon as a mail is recieved, mail.php is executed.

What i now require is to be able to run the script only when a specific address is detected. Now doing some reading there seems to be a couple of ways you can do this, but i cant seem to get it to work.

I have tried:

test@mydomain.com|/home/hagan687/web/mail.php


test@mydomain.com,"|/home/hagan687/web/mail.php"

default|hagan687
script|/home/hagan687/web/mail.php


Has anyone got any suggestions on where im going wrong?

Many thanks,

Ben.

Your are doing well with .forward, but if you need to to filtering on default email address based, you need to go for procmail. this is really a cool mail filtering system, comes with most *NIX system.

If you don't find one with your OS, try:

http://www.procmail.org/


Let's do it;..

Dear All

This may not be related directly to your interest, but I have a critical problem as described below:

I am new to LINUX, using REDHAT Linux 9.0. I have been assigned to install bugzilla, every thing is ready, but my send mail is not configured. When I try to do so using with rpm -Uvh db4-4.1.25-14.i386.rpm. it fails by following warning:

warning: db4-4.1.25-14.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
error: Failed dependencies:
libdb-4.0.so is needed by (installed) python-2.2.2-26
libdb-4.0.so is needed by (installed) pam-0.75-48
libdb-4.0.so is needed by (installed) cyrus-sasl-2.1.10-4
libdb-4.0.so is needed by (installed) perl-5.8.0-88
libdb-4.0.so is needed by (installed) db4-utils-4.0.14-20
libdb-4.0.so is needed by (installed) openoffice-libs-1.0.2-4
libdb_cxx-4.0.so is needed by (installed) openoffice-libs-1.0.2-4
db4 = 4.0.14-20 is needed by (installed) db4-devel-4.0.14-20
db4 = 4.0.14-20 is needed by (installed) db4-utils-4.0.14-20

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I don’t know what to do at this point since I have libdb_cxx-4.0.so and libdb-4.0.so in my /lib folder. I have given the path as well.

If ant body has any idea to fix it. Please help or advice
Thanks in advance
Anand Srivastava

If you want to install sendmail, why are you install/upgrading db4 rpm? Do any of your software told you to upgrade db4? Leave the db4, install sendmail.

Bauani
http://www.bauani.org/