Monitor a POP3 account
Hello All, Need to come up with a script to monitor a special POP3 account that will be used to tigger another script.. was hoping someone could direct me or supply an example of how to retreive an email from a POP account. Basically this will automatically monitor the POP account via a cron job,.. no problems there, but what is the best way to retrieve the email, via Perl, so the other script can be triggered... hope this is clear ;) thanks, -- Mike(mickalo)Blezien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Thunder Rain Internet Publishing Providing Internet Solutions that work! http://www.thunder-rain.com Tel: 1(985)902-8484 Fax: 1(985)345-2419 MSN Messager Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Monitor a POP3 account
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/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Monitor a POP3 account
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_ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
