Exim: run script after receiving from specific email account

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I'd like to run a shell script when receiving emails from certain email account.

I am putting together a sms alert system whereby sending emails to alerts@domain.com, it runs a script that converts those emails to sms messages.

The script part is quite simple since I've got quite experience on it, but I have no idea about how trigger a script just when sending emails to a certain account.

set up an alias user and start up script , however this method is very old and not secure. — michael501, Oct 22 '13 at 19:52
Hi @michael can you be more specific? I am not sure what you mean. — diegoiglesias, Oct 23 '13 at 14:29
@michael my point is, why I need to set up an alias user? how your suggestion is related to my question? — diegoiglesias, Oct 23 '13 at 20:41

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 15 '14 at 10:29

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If your exim configuration allows pipe transports from a .forward file, you can also put the following command in a ~/.forward -file for the account in question:

|/path/to/script

answered Apr 15 '14 at 10:29

krisku

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