fliptop wrote: > On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 at 11:05, Mike(mickako)Blezien opined: > > M:Need to come up with a script to monitor a special POP3 account that will be > M:used to tigger another script.. was hoping someone could direct me or supply an > M:example of how to retreive an email from a POP account. > M: > M:Basically this will automatically monitor the POP account via a cron job,.. no > M:problems there, but what is the best way to retrieve the email, via Perl, so the > M:other script can be triggered... hope this is clear ;) > > use procmail to pipe the email to a perl script, then use mail::audit to > process the message. the instructions for doing this come with the > documentation for mail::audit. you don't need to use a cron job if you > use procmail. > > http://search.cpan.org/author/SIMON/Mail-Audit-2.1/
I wish I would have known about this script before. I just finished a project that was to watch an email account. I just used mailx as my mail checker and to move the mail to the mbox file it creates in the users home account. Then I used perls' parsing abilities to parse up the emails and do what I wanted with them. Oh well, looks like I could use this to re-work it in the future, if I get bored. Then again... if it ain't broke...... -- ------------------------------- Just Your Friendly Neighborhood _SPIDEY_
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