On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 16:54:04 CST, Pek Pongpaet <[log in to unmask]> said: > Hello everyone. I am a listserv novice and I have a problem. I would like to > know if LISTSERV can parse incoming emails and depending on the content of > the email, kick-off different processes such as exe's or cgi's. These emails > will be coming from different users all coming from different domains. > > Basically, I would like to update a database with the incoming email. > > Thanks for your help in advance. Don't get Listserv involved. Have your mail delivery agent do the work instead. A popular scheme under Unix is to use procmail or a .forward pipe to a program that does your updating. So for instance, if you have a userid 'foobar' defined, then putting % cat > ~foobar/.forward | /my/database/updater/here ^D will cause all mail to 'foobar' to launch the updater. You will of course have to do a little bit more work so 'foobar' can still receive non-update mail, do security checking on the mail, etc etc etc. Incidentally, 'cgi's are webserver-oriented, and don't really apply in other contexts... Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech