Processing incoming mail

p1j2d3 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Brethren - Guardians of the #!
The boss wants a system to process user requests - he doesn't want the expense of a website (I know ... cheap skate!)
I have a POP3 accessible mail account set up already
I know I can download new messages using something like Net::POP3
But my question is how do I process the email then?
The subject lines will be in a proscribe format Assistance/guidance/examples requested
Thanks
Patrick

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Re: Processing incoming mail by marto (Cardinal) on Nov 09, 2011 at 12:20 UTC
You could consider using the Mail::Box module, see also Mail Processing or consider using super search to find more discussions.	[reply]
Re: Processing incoming mail by Anonymous Monk on Nov 09, 2011 at 12:27 UTC
Email::Filter It's pure PEP awesomeness.	[reply]
Re: Processing incoming mail by Anonymous Monk on Nov 09, 2011 at 12:27 UTC
Also worth considering are Email::Simple, Email::Filter	[reply]
Re: Processing incoming mail by locked_user sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Nov 09, 2011 at 17:17 UTC
... and for what it’s worth, e-mail is not an altogether-bad way of accepting requests for certain things. But you probably should design your system from the outset with the notion that it may one day have to support both an e-mail based and a web-site based request entry system. Depending on the exact nature of the system, it might make sense to conceptualize it as three stages: order entry and queueing; order processing; and response delivery. Perhaps these are three separate modules, designed to be run either sequentially or in parallel. Then, if “the money starts flowing in by email” and you are asked to develop a compatible order entry and queueing interface that is a web-site, you’ll be that much ahead of the game. (Forewarned is forearmed.)