From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2010-05-06T16:41:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Email listener?

Siddarth Chandrasekaran wrote:
> I'm trying to figure how best to write an email listener -- basically,
> something that listens for particular keyword(s) at an account and
> responds appropriately. Any ideas?

You could write a program which polls a POP3 mailbox periodically, and 
sends replies.

Or you could write a program which accepts an E-mail on stdin, and 
configure your MTA to deliver mail for a certain address directly to 
that program, e.g. using a .forward file or an entry in /etc/aliases.
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