Jc wrote: > > Hello, Hello,
> I inherited a project where we use a procmail filter to filter emails as > they come to our web server and pipe them through a perl script. The > script called "filterme" goes through the email line by line and grabs > information on the email, puts it into an array, and when it is finished, > it appends the data collected to a file, (a log file of sorts). > > I have to redo this script to grab a different set of information, but I > need to filter existing emails already in the mail spool. It was suggested > to me that I could go to the mail folder (var/users/mail) and grab the > folder and then pipe all the files in the mail folder through the > "filterme" script. However, when I look at the mailspool folder, I only > see one file that contains all the emails. I was wondering if there was a > way to somehow parse this file and pipe the results through the "filterme" > script. > > I realize I need more education in how email works and I am slowly picking > through the sendmail book by O'Reilly. But if anyone knows a simple answer > to this, I would be much obliged. Have a look at these modules: http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Mail-MboxParser http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Mail-Box John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
