for the programmatic stuff, you have to be aware of what UID the programs/scripts will be run as.

For postfix, for example, scripts run from /etc/aliases (or any other root-owned aliases file) will be run as the 'nobody' user.  

postfix has the ability to have multiple aliases files and (here's the good part) programs run from an aliases file will be run as the user who owns that file (except for root - as mentioned before, aliases files owned by root are run as nobody).

if you ever need to run a script from mail as root, then the easiest way (if you have sudo installed) is to configure sudo to allow 'nobody' to run it as root without a password and run it from a wrapper script that runs it with sudo.

NOTE: whenever triggering scripts from mail, you have to remember that the data (i.e. the mail) is from an untrusted source (the internet)....so it is extremely unsafe to use the data from either the body or the header as arguments to commands executed by the script.  this is basically the same issue as trusting user-supplied data in a CGI script - just don't do it.  e.g. consider what a badly written script could do if the user-supplied data was something like " ... innocuousdatahere ...; rm -rf /".  you might think it would be easy to check for obvious things like semi-colons and strip them out, but there's a lot of non-obvious things you'd need to check for as well and you'd just be setting yourself up for a failure since you're unlikely to think of or catch them all.  far safer to eliminate the security risk entirely by just not trusting user supplied data ever.

this is important no matter what UID the script will run as but is especially important when/if it is being run as root.

Finally, to answer one of your direct questions, procmail is still a useful tool for what you want to do.  as is maildrop and other similar programs.  think of procmail etc as specialised tools for parsing body and headers to make decisions about what to do, so you don't have to have all that parsing code in your scripts.  write your script to be just do its job, and use procmail to decide when the script should be run.  for example, you could create a new user called, say, 'mailjobs' which has its own home dir and .procmailrc file.  then create aliases that forward mail to that user.  mailjobs' .procmailrc would then check the X-Original-To header to decide which script(s) to run.

Postfix or exim: Automated/Programmatic and forwarded email setup
I am from Sweden and I've been in Kuala Lumpur for some time now and I wonder where I can find some good spots for shooting pictures. I've already been to Zoo Negara, but are there any other kind of places to visit? 

I will stay in Kuala Lumpur until December, feel free to make suggestions. I'm much into photographing people and life.
