On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 22:02, Robert Brown wrote: > Sounds like you are trying to write a harvesting tool to build a > spammer's email address list to me. Since you want to do it in C, I > suspect that either you have a huge amount of text to parse, probably > from web pages and news group postings, or you need to write a tool > that will run inside of a worm or virus to extract email addresses > from an address list of a machine you just hacked. Please explain to > the list why it would be beneficial to help you. For one, you could > just write it in perl and then use one of the perl2c tools out there > to translate it into C.
Oops , I am sorry , If I sounded like a spammer. But What I actually want to do is find out the recipients in a email in a milter program ( from the headers , and not from rcpt callback ) . This milter plugs in to the SMTP server , ie sendmail and now I can do a whole lot of validation and email redirection depending on the headers, which is the real requirement. There is actually a perl module for milter Sendmail::Milter, But it uses some untested thread functions and simply hangs most unpredictably ( I am using perl5.6.1 with threads on redhat 7.2) . Also A milter in perl is inherently very slow as compared to one in C. So I translated most of code into C and this script runs very well. But I miss my favorite regex's in C BTW , I cant see any reason Why a spammer would insist on using C against perl for his database Thanks Ram ---------------------------------------------------------------- NETCORE SOLUTIONS *** Ph: +91 22 5662 8000 Fax: +91 22 5662 8134 MailServ and FlexiMail: Messaging Solutions: http://netcore.co.in Pragatee: Integrated Server-Software Suite: http://www.pragatee.com Emergic Freedom: Server-centric Computing: http://www.emergic.com BlogStreet: Blog Profiles and RSS Ecosystem: http://blogstreet.com Deeshaa: Rural Development: http://www.deeshaa.com Rajesh Jain's Weblog on Technology: http://www.emergic.org ----------------------------------------------------------------
