You are all awesome! Thank you for all this kind attention -- I apologize for posting and then running off to a late meeting. <div><br></div><div>It looks like the combination of fetchmail and procmail is exactly what I was needing (and good to know about other options, like Net::SMTP, too ...)</div>
<div><br></div><div>It's kind of an interesting challenge - we want to make it as frictionless as possible for govt agencies to respond to the hazard report emails that we send out from Bikewise. So we're going to be implementing a very simple "form" that gets submitted simply by replying to the email.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If anyone's done something similar and has pearls of wisdom, I'd welcome any tips ..</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again!</div><div><br></div><div>Phil</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Phil Mitchell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:phil@2people.org">phil@2people.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>For my perl/catalyst web app, Bikewise.org, we want to automate the process of receiving updates from users via email. IOW, user sends email to <a href="mailto:update@bikewise.org" target="_blank">update@bikewise.org</a> and we parse the contents and update the database accordingly. </div>
<div><br></div><div>As I sat down to think this through, I realized I have no idea how this is done. The app is hosted on a virtual server, and relies on a separate mail server that's run by my hosting provider. Do I need access to the raw mail files on the server? Is there a standard way to set this up?</div>
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