Fetchmail is working wonderfully, but I am going to give Mail::Audit a go.
I appreciate everyone's advice.
Ken
On 1 Jun 2001, Piers Cawley wrote:
> Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:58:40PM -0400, KeN ClarK wrote:
> > > I haven't done much of anything yet. But of course figured out how
> > > fetchmail can do this and send it to my user locally. So that is working.
> > > BUT, if a perl script that is cron'd will use less resources, I'd prefer
> > > that.
> >
> > I would be extremely surprised if fetchmail wasn't far cheaper to run
> > than a Perl solution.
>
> Mail::Audit (a procmail replacement by Simon Cozens) comes with a script
> which you can run to turn it into a fetchmail replacement as well. The
> idea is that you can just leave it running in daemon mode and it'll
> deliver mail etc without having to fork off extra processes.
>
> Assuming you've got your filtering scripts sorted out properly, this
> will probably be the most lightweight solution going.
>
> And it's Perl. And it's available from CPAN. Result.
>
>
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