Hi all, I have an idea but I'm not sure what software supports what I'm trying to do:
I want to have e-mails come into my server and when a particular address (say, foo@bar.com) recieves a message, I want the POP3 server to catch that and send the contents of the message as arguments to a command-line application. Also, for security reasons, I want foo@bar.com to only be able to recieve e-mail from one address, dummy@somewhere.com. Is this possible? If so, what software should I be using. I just downloade SurgeMail (from the makers of DMail) and a look around suggests that it doesn't have this ability.

In a similar vein was an article in the most recent 2600 Magazine called "reverse remote access," which talked about a client executing a few commands when the proper email was received, allowing an SSH shell to open up, getting around their work's SSH blocks.

I know it's not exactly what you're looking for, but it may give you some ideas

I do this all the time and can send you a shell script that'll
show you what to do.

Send me your email address and I'll send it to you.

why dont you post it here ? so that every body can see it

including me

Yes, I would be interested in a quick eyeball at this script as well.

I'd be interested to see how this works so expect my address soon.

In sendmail you can put an entry in the /etc/aliases file that pipes email addressed to foo to a program or script that can then parse the email. The line would look something like:

foo: "| myprogram"

I'm not sure how this would work with POP, though.