Want procmail to run a custom python script, everytime a new mail shows up

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Published on 2009-02-17T17:37:23Z Indexed on 2010/04/18 17:43 UTC
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I have a pretty usual requirement with procmail but I am unable to get the results somehow. I have procmailrc file with this content:

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* ^To.*@myhost
| /usr/bin/python /work/scripts/privilege_emails_forward.py

Wherein my custom python script(privilege_emails_forward.py) will be scanning through the email currently received and do some operations on the mail content. But I am unable to get the script getting executed at the first shot(let alone scanning through the mail content).

Is this a correct way of invoking an external program(python) as soon as new mail arrives?
And how does my python program(privilege_emails_forward.py) will receive the mail as input? I mean as sys.argv or stdin????

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