Back in the days when I was a kid and before the internet for everyone, I used to check my e-mail and discuss things using a BBS and connecting to it as a 'point', i.e. I automatically downloaded a packet of email and echomail, ended the phone call, unpacked the messages, used a program called 'squish' to toss messages to the appropriate areas on my system and then used a message editor like GoldEd to edit end review my email. What was really nice with this setting is that such programs were built for users, i.e. everything was driven by a number of batch files and I could add my homebrew features with a number of small C programs receiving a simple text file in input and modifying it as needed.

You wonder what this has to do with Perl - well, the point is that I'm looking for a mail client that is powerful enough to be scripted in Perl. I want it to launch small Perl scripts after fetching mail or on my command, and I want them to manipulate what was downloaded so that I can play nice tricks with it. I usually use a win32 system. As far as I have seen, neither Eudora nor TheBat nor Pegasus support anything like this. Got any suggestions?

In reply to Mail Clients and Perl by l3nz

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