I want to process a particular mailbox when it receives mail, I know I could have cron check every n minutes for any mail, but wondering if there’s a way to ‘listen’ for mail rather than continually polling.
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I want to process a particular mailbox when it receives mail, I know I could have cron check every n minutes for any mail, but wondering if there’s a way to ‘listen’ for mail rather than continually polling.
Try a .forward file
You can pipe the message into any program or script you want, but also check if procmail can do what you want.