[Chicago-talk] Email processing in perl

[Mike Fragassi]

On Sat, 20 Nov 2010, Richard Reina wrote:

> I am hoping to write a program that runs on a machine and accepts 
> incoming emails to a specific email address.  Once it receives the 
> email it looks for a transaction number in the subject line and 
> verifies that the attachments are in either pdf or tiff formats. 
> Depending on the outcome of the checks it would send back an email to 
> the sender. However, I am wondering where to start. Is there some sort 
> of utility that runs with perl that does some of this?  If someone can 
> point me in the right direction I would really appreciate it.

I haven't used it myself, but try Mail::Audit:

http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/07/17/mailfiltering.html

- Mike F.