How do i acess data comming in my mail

bari has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have data comming to me in my email ... it is in HTML format. and in the form of table. I have to access that data and change some of its cell and display it again on the web page. how do i do that. your help will be appreciated. thanks - bari

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Re: How do i acess data comming in my mail by dws (Chancellor) on Jan 18, 2001 at 01:38 UTC
Assuming you have a shell account on a Unix machine, in addition to procmail you can use Mail::Audit to intercept and process incoming messages before they're appended to your mailbox. Simply¹ write a Perl script that uses `Mail::Audit,` and drop a command line to invoke that script into `~/.forward` ¹ With the standard caveat that you should test the bejeezus out of any script that might interfere with your getting your email.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: How do i acess data comming in my mail by eg (Friar) on Jan 18, 2001 at 01:03 UTC
Not sure I understand your problem. I would use procmail to pipe the appropriate email messages through a perl script that uses HTML::Parser to extract, edit and write the html file to your www-root.	[reply]