i'm getting really sick of having to babysit the company's mailserver every time some client sends out a bulk mail ... because all of the bounces toss the load average on the box up to something hideous, like 40 ... eventually i'll need to tackle that job, but in the meantime i've been thinking of creating a new alias to handle the bounces ...

a lot of the nodes i've seen deal with parsing mboxes, not with taking the mail off of STDIN. i know i'll hit a bottleneck ... so maybe there's a better way to architect it.

in the meantime, with of the some 10,000 odd Mail::* modules are recommended for:

1. lopping off the attachment ( the orig. message is attached )
2. parsing the message for the bad email address in the To: field.

i was originally looking at Mail::Header ... then I realized the messages have the original mail *attached*.

Mail::Message::Attachment::Stripper looks OK, but i'm wondering (out loud, i guess) if i can just pass the attachment to Mail::Header to yank out the orig. To: field

In reply to [Module recommendation ] parsing incoming email (piped to a script) by geektron

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