Re: Mail processing tool

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from Jonas J Linde:
> And R.DElia@starcomitalia.com spoke unto the world. And said:
> > I need a tool that does the following work:
> > checks for new mail in a maibox via pop3;

So, IMAP is the wrong answer.

> > verify the digital signature and decrypts the mail;

GnuPG

> > parse the body;

procmail/grep/sed/perl/bash/python/...

> > executes 1 or more action (completely customizzable);

procmail

> > delete (archives) the mail;

fetchmail

> This sounds like an ideal job for the combination of the rather
> appropriately named tools fetchmail and procmail, which - to no big
> surprise - are suitable to fetch and process mail.

Agreed.  Add on gnupg for signature verification and decryption
(perhaps callable by procmail).

I'm not surprised there isn't one monolithic tool to do what you ask;
you're asking a lot.  Chaining one existing specific tool after
another to build up your overall system is the way to go.


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