Bash scripting for newbie

[savekov]

Hi guys,
I have qmail installed and the emails are coming to the maildir/new i think with random names. I want to be able to check for new mail, cut it, take a exact contents and then mail this content to another email or send it though sms to a specific phone number. I know how to do almost everything except how to make the loop to check for new emails and after finish working with the email to delete it.
Can you please point me to some documentation or give me a simple example.

Thank you very very much!!

[RobinVossen]

what about?
LOOP:
check if files exist?
do stuff
Destory File
Time Wait 3 Seconds (To not Throttle CPU)
: DO

I cant give you this in Bash though I can in Perl or C++

[savekov]

Hi
what file? i dont know the names of the files as they come randomly. thats the main point i dont know how to create script(loop) to check for new files in this directory as they come randomly and what if three emails come together in the same time?

[RobinVossen]

Check if there is a file..
record the name of the file.
Remove that file afterwards
then he sees the second one.
and if you dont know the name use a wildcard in the search

[likwid]

Isn't this what procmail is made for?

[RobinVossen]

Can be I dont know