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Asked: 2026-05-26T06:27:29+00:00

Other than procmail what Unix tools can read an email via pipe? I have

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Other than procmail what Unix tools can “read” an email via pipe? I have a client that wants to develop an app on a university managed (read squeamish IT dept) server. Procmail is not installed and neither is PHP’s IMAP extension. What other programs or scripts can accept a piped email as input?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Unless I misunderstood the question (which, now that I reread it a few times, i may have) but….Mail files are just text files that the mail command parses and provides a front end for. You can use cat, vi, or any of the like to process the mail file:

    cat /var/spool/mail/`whoami`
vi /var/spool/mail/`whoami`
grep -A10 "To: bob@bob.com"  /var/spool/mail/`whoami`
....

    Check out Admin Guide – Managing the Mail

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