I've done a search on your site for parsing email and similar information and have read literally hundreds of excellent replies. My question isn't quite like the others, tho. Here's what I'd like to accomplish:

1) An automated system (nearly real-time) that parses email (from one source only), finds info (next to a particular keyword), appends it to a flat/text database, generates a random, unique password & also appends it, emails the parsed text 2 places.

The nearly real-time aspect of checking for new mail could be able to be done using Crontab (I think). Just set it to run the routine once per minute.

However, these would appear to be the real problem(s):

2) The system should monitor on an hourly basis to see how long, in days and hours, since the original email in (1) had been sent.

(3) Detect how many times any given individual has visited the site that the Perl script is running on.

Whew! I know that it's a pretty tall order but I'd really apreciate any info/code you can give me.

Thanks in advance, Kent

In reply to Newbie: Parsing Email by CKent

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