Execute shell command on new mail? - Mutt

On 2007-04-17, Raffi Khatchadourian <khatcad@news.cse.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
> Any way to execute an arbitrary shell command when a new message is
> received in mutt?

It's depend what's do you mean by "received by mutt", and what's kind of
mail account you use.

If you use a pop or imap account from you ISP or whatever server, you
can use something like "Fetchmail" or "Getmail", that will run from a
cronjob and will put you mail in a mbox or Maildir in you computer. To
run the arbitrary shell script, it can be done by the cronjob script
that call fetchmail or getmail, if you got new mails. So in that case..
it's not really mutt related.

If you want to let mutt to run steady and start a shell command when it
got new mail.. I've never try that... The other way seems more
convenient for me.. And it have the advantage to put mails from multiple
account all together in one inbox.

If you receive it already in a mbox because you run sendmail, postfix or
similar, there's many way. It's depend in your OS, you mailbox format,
etc..

--
Martin

Raffi Khatchadourian <khatcad@news.cse.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
> Any way to execute an arbitrary shell command when a new message is
> received in mutt?

No way that I know of. The usual way to execute commands upon the
arrival of mail is to use something like procmail.

HTH,
Gary