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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:57:13 -0600
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Subject: Re: fetchmail and cygwin
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Wow - haven't found an example of using mda to invoke a php script on
a website (and also to process all the emails at once would be good).
Can you point me to an example?  Thanks again!

On 1/21/09, Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net> wrote:
> Gary,
>
> Please see the following:
>
>    http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:52:04PM -0800, gary marbach wrote:
>> Thanks Jason!  I just figured this same thing out about 90 min ago.
>> Now I'm all about trying to create a "script" to go and get one
>> message from my mailbox, turn that into either a file to upload to a
>> website (where a script is continuously polling for it)   OR   turn
>> that into an HTTP (or https) request and cause the script on a site to
>> be invoked in that manner...   Does this stuff sound possible?
>
> Yes.  If you set "mda" in your .fetchmailrc to point to your script (or
> procmail), then you can fetch all of your mail messages -- not just one
> at a time.
>
>> Thanks again!
>
> You are quite welcome.
>
> Jason
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