Could you please post an actual example of your email header. Cheers, Parag
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 9:20 AM, S Pratap Singh <kdari...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello , > > I am trying to write a script which can parse email header and based on > certain criteria/parameter it will update the email subject detail in the > database. > > I have written a code but it is taking too much time to execute the code > and > each process is utilizing 100% of its cpu resources allocated to the > process. > > The code itself is too big so I can not paste it here since there are lots > operation being performed on the email header after fetching the correct > emails. > > However I am pasting the search string which I am using and I think it is > only bugy. > > search_string => > > '(.*)(From:)(\s*)(.*)(\s*)(\...@*\s*)(\s*)(\S*\s*\S*\s*\S*\s*\S*\s*\S*)(s*)(.*)(\s*)(id)(\s*)(\w\w\w\w\w\w-\w\w\w\w\w\w-\w\w*)(\s*)(.*)(\s*)(for > > \...@\s*)(\s*)(;)(\s*)(\S*\s*\S*\s*\S*\s*\S*)(\s*)(\d\d:\d\d:\d\d)(.*)(\s*)(Subject:)(\s*)(.*)(\s*)[(Primary > Hostname)](\s*)(.*)', > > I want to gather particular field from the email header along with the > complete message. > The field which I want to select from the email header are > 1 From address (Filed number 6) > 2 For address (Since mails being forwarded to my email address from else > where) (Filed number 17) > 3 Date and Time (Filed number 22 and 24) > 4 Message ID (Filed number 14) > 5 Complete Subject Line (Filed number 29) > 6 Complete Body (Filed number 33) > > Above gives me the output but it takes too much time sometimes it takes 30 > min if multiple mail comes to email address since I am writing these > details > in a file at the moment but I am worried because I want to update all these > details to my database. > > Is there any way around to sort this out and it should not take more than a > sec to complete the task. > > I know the above search string is not perfect and it fails if mail header > format is different . If someone can shed some light on this. > > I have very less experience in perl programming so if you want to ask any > thing please ask me and if some could come over chat then it will be really > appreciated. > > Thank you > Pratap >
