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Asked: 2026-05-11T12:51:14+00:00

I am writing a script to handle an automated email inbox. I’ve never really

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I am writing a script to handle an automated email inbox. I’ve never really dealt with mail servers before, but have gotten to a point where every email sent is executing my script. I am using a .forward file in the home directory of the recipient user that looks like this:

'|exec /home/[MY USER]/magic || exit 75 #[MY USER]'

The script simply takes it’s input and writes it to a file at this point. The problem is, I don’t know how to find the email being sent, and I can’t seem to find any documentation on how the .forward-file works in detail. How do I get to the email?

Any help is greatly appeciated 🙂

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  1. Some general information about the ~/.forward file and the interaction with the mail server is described here, and the Filtering Mail FAQ also contains some information.

    While just using a dot-forward file might be sufficient you very typically want to use procmail for more powerful mail processing.

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