Date:         Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:31:29 -0800
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From:         David <davidschr@GMAIL.COM>
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Subject:      Re: Email into SAS server and starting a SAS job. Possible?
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You could write a scheduled script that polled the output of the Unix
mail command (or the mail spool) and triggered a SAS job that way.  Or
if you have something like procmail I imagine you could have it set off
batch SAS without polling.

There is a security risk however - do you really want people to be able
to run SAS just by sending an email, given that Email headers can
easily be forged?

Ali G wrote:
> Is this possible?
>
> We have a SAS BI Enterprise and a big UNIX server.  Is it possible for
> someone to email into the server and attach a CSV file say, and upon
> receipt of the file the server goes 'Ah ha!' and kicks off a SAS job
> that rips out the attached file and does something or other with it?
>
> What needs to be done?
>
> Many thanks.