On 07/12/13 15:22, David Guntner wrote: > Tony van der Hoff grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >> Hi, list, >> >> I have a squeezy VPS, running Postfix to handle all my mail, plus >> several virtual users, with which I'm entirely satisfied. >> >> I also have a number of remote, normally unattended, locations, with >> dynamic IPs, containing IP cameras to keep an eye on things. I'm not >> able to access/change the camera firmware. These cameras send me an >> email if their IP changes, containing the new IP address. >> >> Up to now, I've been manually extracting the IP from the incoming mail >> (on my workstation), and plugging it into a nsupdate script, to update >> bind on the VPS, so that I can access the camera(s) from anywhere on the >> net. >> >> So far, so good, but what I'd really like to do is intercept the >> incoming email on the VPS, and automatically run a script to do the update. >> >> There's an awful lot of information about postscript on the web, even >> some articles that look like potential answers, but googling about has >> not been fruitful. In particular, there appear to be problems with >> priveleges. Naturally, I don't want to do anything that upsets mail >> delivery to the virtual users. Maybe I didn't use the right search terms. >> >> Longer term, I'll install raspberry Pis on the remote networks to >> automatically send an nsupdate to the server on IP change, but in the >> interim, I'd like to automate the manual process above. >> >> Does anyone know how to attach some sort of filter/trigger to postfix to >> cause a script to be run on incoming mail with particular conditions, >> or would anyone like to suggest a better solution? > > Look into Procmail, which might already be installed as the LDA for Postfix.
Yes, thanks, it's there. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52a45f81.2080...@vanderhoff.org
