On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 09:08:19AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 02:57:55AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > > hmm! > > > > what process do you use to invoke perl as a mail filter? > > > > or is it just a > > :0 > > |/usr/bin/perl someScript > > thingy? (i presume that would compile the script once for > > each and every message, yes?) > > > > point me to the manpage, i will go. > > Just my $HOME/.forward file. I'm using sendmail as my MTA, so > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] msoulier]$ cat .forward > | /home/msoulier/bin/mailfilter > > A pipe to the script invokes the filter. > > I do a lot of Perl development for work, and I find procmail recipes hard > to read. I know, if I can read Perl regexps, I can read procmail, but it's > just easier to do it in Perl. Fun too. ;-) > > I can include the entire script if you like. You'll need Mail::Internet > and Mail::Audit before you can use it, but you can grab those off the CPAN.
cool -- that'd be great! (i finally learned the CPAN module... hopefully it won't conflict with an apt-get install ...) this sounds wonderful! i agree with you on the procmail recipes. eek!