Re: perl with sendmail

Christoph Wernli (cw@dwc.ch)
Tue, 9 Jun 1998 17:18:48 -6000


On Tue, 9 Jun 1998 perl@digigate.net wrote:

<note>This hasn't much to do with libwww.</note>

> Anyone knows how i can pipe an email message to a perl script.
> 
> In the sendmail aliases file i made the following:
> 
> test:        "|/usr/testing/tes.pl"
> 
> now how can i read the mail from the script ?

Either line by line:

while (<ARGV>){
	# do something
}

or entirely

undef $/;

$message = <ARGV>;

hth, -Christoph