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Running a program upon receipt of an email
Paul, Doesn't this simply move the problem to a different place? How does your example address the problem of swamping the server with N copies of the same program cranking away at the same time? -Doug- dugla
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- Forum: Sendmail, Inc.: Sendmail
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Running a program upon receipt of an email
nlhe, I am indeed using an aliase similar to what you sketched. The problem with this approach is that if I get a spike in requests. Zillions of copies of the email processing executable get spawned quickly swamping my server. I need a way to sequences the calls in a controllable way. -Doug- dugla
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- Forum: Sendmail, Inc.: Sendmail
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Running a program upon receipt of an email
Hello, I'm looking for a scalable way to run an external program upon receipt of an email sent to a particular address. I currently use an alias in /etc/aliasese and that works fine but I need an approach that can scale. I want some sort of snooper program that watches for mail arriving at a...- dugla
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