Automated E-mail Detection

Mop-Boy has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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

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Re: Automated E-mail Detection by davorg (Chancellor) on Mar 24, 2003 at 17:06 UTC
Take a look at Mail::Audit. There's a good article about it in The Perl Journal. -- <http://www.dave.org.uk> "The first rule of Perl club is you do not talk about Perl club." -- Chip Salzenberg	[reply]
Re: Automated E-mail Detection by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Mar 24, 2003 at 17:19 UTC
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	[reply]
Re: Automated E-mail Detection by theguvnor (Chaplain) on Mar 25, 2003 at 01:12 UTC
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]	[reply]
Re: Automated E-mail Detection by rah (Monk) on Mar 25, 2003 at 04:03 UTC
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.	[reply]