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Re: fetchmail and cygwin
- From: gary marbach <garymarbach at gmail dot com>
- To: gary marbach <garymarbach at gmail dot com>, Cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:57:13 -0600
- Subject: Re: fetchmail and cygwin
- References: <2f5d38320901181518k6fa200d9q7b419ed214c3a3da@mail.gmail.com> <2f5d38320901181523u41d5a070w77c44e31e9a7ac00@mail.gmail.com> <20090119200823.GA10516@tishler.net> <2f5d38320901191231k37b4033ena9618dfd4cfd3a1e@mail.gmail.com> <2f5d38320901191252h656a37e5j3249bb200569859@mail.gmail.com> <20090121131622.GA8012@tishler.net>
Wow - haven't found an example of using mda to invoke a php script on
a website (and also to process all the emails at once would be good).
Can you point me to an example? Thanks again!
On 1/21/09, Jason Tishler <jason@tishler.net> wrote:
> Gary,
>
> Please see the following:
>
> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:52:04PM -0800, gary marbach wrote:
>> Thanks Jason! I just figured this same thing out about 90 min ago.
>> Now I'm all about trying to create a "script" to go and get one
>> message from my mailbox, turn that into either a file to upload to a
>> website (where a script is continuously polling for it) OR turn
>> that into an HTTP (or https) request and cause the script on a site to
>> be invoked in that manner... Does this stuff sound possible?
>
> Yes. If you set "mda" in your .fetchmailrc to point to your script (or
> procmail), then you can fetch all of your mail messages -- not just one
> at a time.
>
>> Thanks again!
>
> You are quite welcome.
>
> Jason
>
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