Sorry I had to vote -- on this one. The mail-to-database problem is one I had to fiddle with two months ago.
  1. Your script doesn't do anything with attachments, they will just be saved encoded into the body text column.
  2. Usually you know into which database you want to insert mail, so dynamically selecting it isn't necessary.
  3. Passing passwords on the command line isn't a good idea, they can be found in the shell's history (if it has one).
  4. Traversing over the header in a while loop should be faster than mapping (but this is untested).
  5. I prefer using placeholders to insert values, so I don't have to fiddle with correct quoting.
These are just my 2 cents.

In reply to RE: mailtosql.pl by le
in thread mailtosql.pl by lindex

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