Chad Simper — Wed, 04 Apr 2001 17:02:13 +0000

It's really quite simple to actually get the mail to the script... The hard part (for me anyway) is getting parsing the mail and inserting it into the database. I don't know much PERL unfortunately which is why I am looking for a script to work from.

simple-support.com has exactly what I am looking for... unfortunately, I don't want to pay $800 bucks to see it as I won't use the system and it's not quite worth that much to me.

I will see what I can make of Maill::Audit but if anyone knows of a script that is already written that does what I am looking for (I'm willing to pay a bit for just the script that will parse e-mails if anyone has one or can build one), please let me know.

Mail Forwarding

japhy — Wed, 04 Apr 2001 16:33:18 +0000

There are two stages to this problem. Forwarding the mail to the program, and the program itself.

Mail forwarding can be done by things as simple as a .forward file (if your server supports such actions), or by a complete application like procmail. This part is up to you. Forwarding the piece of mail to the program is not Perl's job.

Perl's job is the parsing of the email. This is so good for Perl (since Perl is the text-processing language, or so they say).

You're in luck. I looked for an email parser on CPAN, and, lo and behold, found Mail::Audit by Simon Cozens. That appears to be quite good for what you're requesting.

merlin — Wed, 04 Apr 2001 09:53:34 +0000

that would mean, the incoming mail must passt through the script? i don't know anything 'bout mailserver and such, but it seems to be complicated...

and very usefull indeed...

Mark Hensler — Wed, 04 Apr 2001 09:48:40 +0000

Nope, but if you find one, please post a link. Seems usefull.

And it must be Perl?