Re: [SLUG] email address farming

2006-10-18 Thread O Plameras
James Gray wrote: 3. If I was actually writing this for myself, I'd probably use Perl, or maybe even PHP (asbestos suit on). Or Ruby, the love child of Perl and Smalltalk, and a cousin to Lisp. Nit pick away people, I'm willing to learn. O Plameras -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] email address farming

2006-10-18 Thread James Gray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/10/2006, at 8:47 AM, James Gray wrote: On 18/10/2006, at 10:05 PM, Nicholas Tomlin wrote: James, Yes, I had thought of that, but my scripting is woefully non existant, I have the misfortune of being a [ugh] desk top user hemmed in by the

Re: [SLUG] email address farming

2006-10-18 Thread James Gray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/10/2006, at 12:09 PM, Penedo wrote: On 19/10/06, Matthew Hannigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > egrep . >> $TMP This is sorta off topic, but setting umask is not enough. Someone else could have a file of the same name as $TMP I

Re: [SLUG] email address farming

2006-10-18 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 12:06:23PM +1000, Roger Barnes wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 08:47:45AM +1000, James Gray wrote: > > > > > # Make any generated files only readable by moi umask 077 > > > MAILROOT=~/Mail TMP=/tmp/mail-addresses.tmp > > ... > > > egrep . >> $TMP > >

RE: [SLUG] email address farming

2006-10-18 Thread Roger Barnes
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 08:47:45AM +1000, James Gray wrote: > > > # Make any generated files only readable by moi umask 077 > > MAILROOT=~/Mail TMP=/tmp/mail-addresses.tmp > ... > > egrep . >> $TMP > > This is sorta off topic, but setting umask is not enough. > Someone else c

RE: [SLUG] email address farming

2006-10-18 Thread Roger Barnes
> Yes, I had thought of that, but my scripting is woefully non > existant, I have the misfortune of being a [ugh] desk top > user hemmed in by the ongoing use and convenience of a GUI, I > can talk the talk, but as for walking, I'm legless.. > > Maybe someone as knowlegable as yourself could po

Re: [SLUG] email address farming

2006-10-18 Thread Penedo
On 19/10/06, James Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # Now step through the mail store one file (message) at a timefor MSG in `find $MAILROOT -print -type f`do # Each message we find - rip out the e-mail address # The sed command isn't mine - I got it from here: # http://sed.sourceforge.

Re: [SLUG] email address farming

2006-10-18 Thread Penedo
On 19/10/06, Matthew Hannigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...> egrep .  >>  $TMPThis is sorta off topic, but setting umask is not enough.Someone else could have a file of the same name as $TMP  What I tend to do is make a directory and put files inthere.  You're guaranteed that mkdir will re

Re: [SLUG] email address farming

2006-10-18 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 08:47:45AM +1000, James Gray wrote: > # Make any generated files only readable by moi > umask 077 > MAILROOT=~/Mail > TMP=/tmp/mail-addresses.tmp ... > egrep . >> $TMP This is sorta off topic, but setting umask is not enough. Someone else could have a file

Re: [SLUG] email address farming

2006-10-18 Thread Nicholas Tomlin
James, I'll be trying it out on my guinea pig user, I thank you. Regards, Nick. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] email address farming

2006-10-18 Thread James Gray
On 18/10/2006, at 10:05 PM, Nicholas Tomlin wrote: James, Yes, I had thought of that, but my scripting is woefully non existant, I have the misfortune of being a [ugh] desk top user hemmed in by the ongoing use and convenience of a GUI, I can talk the talk, but as for walking, I'm legless

Re: [SLUG] email address farming

2006-10-18 Thread Nicholas Tomlin
James, Yes, I had thought of that, but my scripting is woefully non existant, I have the misfortune of being a [ugh] desk top user hemmed in by the ongoing use and convenience of a GUI, I can talk the talk, but as for walking, I'm legless.. Maybe someone as knowlegable as yourself could point

Re: [SLUG] email address farming

2006-10-17 Thread James Gray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/10/2006, at 6:52 PM, Nicholas Tomlin wrote: No, it isn't for spamming... I've changed my email address again and wish to send emails out to anyone who has sent one to me, short of individually collecting them and putting them into my kont

[SLUG] email address farming

2006-10-17 Thread Nicholas Tomlin
Hello sluggers, No, it isn't for spamming... I've changed my email address again and wish to send emails out to anyone who has sent one to me, short of individually collecting them and putting them into my kontact data base is there a way of farming them to collect them all and throw out the o