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a perl program to collect mails

kaan_e Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2002 1:01 am

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a perl program to collect mails

hi all... i want to redirect my email account
to a perl program and store the mails in a file. i
think the method uses STDIN or something like that (i
really dont know). please, can someone help me with
this? (collecting mails with the perl program)... i can
do the rest... thanks...

webmaster_bmw Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2002 5:50 pm

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a perl program to collect mails

Depends where your mail account is and what type (SMTP or POP3) Have a
look at the various MAIL:: modules, and POP3Client Greg

kaan_e Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2002 7:43 pm

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a perl program to collect mails

my mail account is a Yahoo! Mail... and i must
tell that i can not install modules to the server
because i dont own my server, i use the free ones. is
there a way without installing any modules? can you
give me some links if you know? thanks a lot...

webmaster_bmw Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2002 11:13 pm

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a perl program to collect mails

Sorry. No idea, then. If you are using a
free server, are you sure you can run Perl scripts on
it? My advice - get a proper hosting account with e-mail
and perl/cgi capabilities, otherwise forget it - you
won`t be able to do what you want to do.

rand_mcneely Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2002 2:25 am

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a perl program to collect mails

It`s really not too bad, the POP3 protocol is
very simple (turn on POP logging on Outlook Express to
see the details or look at the spec). All you
need to do it open a socket to pop.mail.yahoo.com:110
and send the correct messages according to the POP3
spec. Event if your server doesn`t have the POP3
modules, they must have socket IO modules (I can`t
remember the specific module as I haven`t done serious
Perl in a while but I am sure it is part of every
distribution).

kaan_e Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2002 9:11 pm

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a perl program to collect mails

thanks but your suggestion is about getting mails from the server. i want the
program to run when a new mail comes, i mean i want the mails go directly to the
perl program...

kaan_e Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2002 9:12 pm

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a perl program to collect mails

i found free serves supporting perl... anyway, which host company do you
suggest? a proper hosting....

rand_mcneely Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2002 11:12 pm

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a perl program to collect mails

You mean you want the SMTP mail server to let
your script know when a message has arrived (SMTP
servers are responsible for recieving mail, POP3 gives
mail to a client such as OE)?? Can`t do it (unless you
can talk Yahoo into letting you modify their SMTP
server code - very unlikely). Perhaps you need to
spend some time with the various popular protocols such
as FTP, POP3, SMTP and HTTP and understand how the
architecture works. Why don`t you just write your own
SMTP server (which is what you really talking about).
The only problem is that SMTP servers listen on TCP
port 25 and I seriously doubt you`ll find a free
hosting company that will allow you to bind to a port
under 1024 if they allow you to bind to any port at
all. What exactly are you hoping to achieve?

kaan_e Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2002 4:28 pm

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a perl program to collect mails

thanks man. i want to manage my site by mail.
i mean i want to add new pages by sending a mail.
of course i will assign commands in my program,
which is easy. but the problem is now to take new
mails... actually redirecting mails to my program... see?

rand_mcneely Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2002 6:57 pm

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a perl program to collect mails

Okay, that`s simple. Set up a yahoo account for
your site admin, write a script that every hour
connect to pop.mail.yahoo.com:110 and downloads mail and
then updates your site. That is the only way you can
do it without owning your own server. You
program simply needs to behave like a mail client. I
understand that what you really want is it to behave like a
smtp server but you can`t do it with a free hosting
service.

kaan_e Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2002 10:39 pm

Joined: 01 Mar 2002

Posts: 6

a perl program to collect mails

i see. i think there is something i
misunderstand! because the page i took that idea doesnt tell
anything about smtp, i mean it doesnt tells that the
program will act like an smtp server, it will just take
the data (mails) from STDIN. well, you can go and
take a look at the page:
<a href=http://chumpsquad.com/erik/gm/rgmp/rgmp.html
target=new>http://chumpsquad.com/erik/gm/rgmp/rgmp.html</a> i will be happy if
you look and tell something...
thanks...

rand_mcneely Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2002 9:32 am

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Posts: 5

a perl program to collect mails

I`m sorry.. you`re too confused to help. You need to go back and learn some of
the fundamentals.

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