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I have been asked to setup an automated trigger on Unix upon receiving a certain kind of email from MS Exchange server.

The requirement is to trigger a shell script when any person from a fixed list of senders sends an email via MS Exchange server to a designated email account on unix.

For example:

Email from [email protected] (Exchange Server) sends an email to [email protected] (Linux) with the subject: Unlock Account X

This ideally should trigger a shell script that will have code to unlock Account X.

Is there a way to configure this on Unix so that upon receiving an email as described above, I can trigger a shell script?

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marked as duplicate by Anthon, Rahul, Kusalananda, Networker, Stephen Kitt yesterday

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procmail might help you in this case – Rahul yesterday
    
Welcome to unix&linux @rob81. Please consider voting for good answers and marking one of them as an answer. – mazs yesterday
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There are multiple solutions to this problem. As suggested by Rahul in the comments, I would use procmail and edit .procmailrc to something like this:

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* ^From.*[email protected]
* !^FROM_DAEMON
* !^FROM_MAILER
* ^Subject:.*Unlock
| /path/to/your/script
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thank you for this. Is there a way to manage this to also filter the subject and look for a specific string or a way to read the string in my shell script and perform the action based on it? – rob81 yesterday
    
@rob81 : If this solves the problem, you may accept it as an answer. :) – sjsam yesterday
    
@rob81 yes, see the edit. – user994144 yesterday
    
Thank you guys!!! – rob81 yesterday

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