Rather than write a new description, I'll include the man page:
AmigaFaces AmigaFaces
NAME
AmigaFaces 1.0 - Universal mail notifier for UUCP and SMTP
Systems (in.smtpd or InetUtils v1.4)
SYNOPSIS
faces
DESCRIPTION
AmigaFaces is a program to be used as a mail filter. It can
start other programs depending on the incoming mail's sender.
Thus, you can i.e. let your Amiga sing "Halleluhjah" whenever
a mail from your girlfriend arrives or swear loudly when mail
from the company is received.
INSTALLATION
Copy faces somewhere in your search path. Copy faces.db to
AmiTCP:db, UULib: or S:. If you don't have one of these, you
don't have an Amiga. AmigaFaces is not for you.
Change faces.db to suit your needs. (This file is well
commented and should be pretty self-explanatory.
Edit your aliases file, most propably UULib:aliases or
AmiTCP:db/aliases. For every user whose mail shall be
processed by faces, add a piping entry. Example:
foo: \foo, "|faces"
For the ones without a sound collection of their own I have
included a "Halleluhjah" and a "DingDing" sound to have
something to start with. I strongly recommend AmiSOX, which
can be found on Aminet and converts virtually all formats to
Amiga IFF (8svx) sound.
That's all.
NOTES
The way this program works is easy: It is invoked by the
rmail-type part of your mailsytem and is given the mail as
its input. It extracts the sender's EMail-address and then
looks up faces.db to see if an action is defined for this
address or class of addresses. If one was found, faces
performs the corresponding action.
See the example faces.db for additional documentation.
DISCLAIMER
No cost - no warranty. Although I really can't imagine what
harm the proper or improper usage of AmigaFaces could do to
your system or data integrity, I must, of course, deny any
responsibility for incidetal or consequential damages
whatsoever. Smile. Relax. Enjoy.
AmigaFaces, that is all part of this distribution except for
the sounds, is Copyright 1994 by Andreas Oesterhelt. All
rights are strictly reserved. Permission is granted to
distribute and use, AS LONG AS NO PROFIT IS MADE HEREOF.
Violators will be towed ;-)
The author can be reached on the net as oesi paradis.rhein.de
I would be glad about your comments, greetings, curses, etc.
BUGS/TODO
I have extensively tested faces with AmigaUUCP rmail, the
in.smtpd for AmiTCP 3b and shortly with SMTPd fom InetUtils
1.4. So far, no bugs are known.
I am thinking about adding a switch for the faces.db entries
that will make piping the mailbody to a command possible. Thus
one could i.e. have messages from selected people displayed
without entering one's mailreader.
Also, the matching of the sender's name should become case-in-
sensitive.
If requested, different db files for different users are
imaginable.
DIAGNOSTICS
To test your faces.db without requesting hundreds of people to
send mail, you can invoke faces from the command line and then
type in a From: line, terminated by Ctrl-\ (EOF). Faces will
try to execute the predefined action and errors of either
faces or the invoked application are displayed in the shell.
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