How to make qmail to feed email into shell command?

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Published on 2010-04-12T11:48:57Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 11:53 UTC
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Hi, I have some server running qmail, with many users/domains configured via plesk. I would like to get emails from specified address delivered to one of my users being feed to shell command, as addition to normal delivery. So, basically, I have some shell script, and I'd like qmail to invoke my script with the email, and the continued with delivery as usual.

If necessary, I can do recipient/sender filterind on script side, though it could be more efficient and cleaner, if qmail would feed only correct emails to my script.

Anyway, how to accomplish that?

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