Automated E-mail Detection

[Mop-Boy]

I am looking for a really good tutorial, or reference that would help me write a perl program that would filter my e-mail and if an e-mail with a set subject, or message string would trigger an automated e-mail to be sent to a list of recipients.

Where could I get info on writing a script to access e-mail this way?

Mop-Boy

[davorg]

Take a look at Mail::Audit. There's a good article about it in The Perl Journal.

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[Limbic~Region]

Mop-Boy,
SpamAssassin might be of some interest to you.
I do not know of any "here's how you roll your own" instructions, but learning by emulating is typically effective.

Cheers - L~R

[theguvnor]

Not to discourage you from looking at other things, POPFile is a wickedly good open-source Bayesian mail filter written in Perl; with that in mind, perhaps you could modify its filtering functions to include some callback functions of your own devising that would do your re-mailing.

[Jon]

[rah]

Don't know if you're familiar with the procmail program, but Mail::Procmail offers comparable mail processing/filtering, with a bit more accessible syntax.