Re: Get mail
Bill Mills-Curran (bcurran@clariion.com)
Thu, 3 Jun 1999 18:20:00 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Michael D. Smith wrote:
> Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 16:15:17 -0500
> From: Michael D. Smith <webmaster@hubeicorp.com>
> To: libwww-perl@ics.uci.edu
> Subject: Get mail
>
> Greetings everyone:
>
> Is it possible to use libwww to retrieve mail from an SMTP server, much
> like retrieving a web page from an http server?
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> I get a lot of junk mail. If I could retrieve it each time a script is
> invoked, even with my level of programming ability, I could easily, set up
> filters, write the junk to one text file that is overwritten each time, and
> the very little needed rest to a text file that isn't overwritten each time.
>
> This would solve a small, but annoying problem. Thanks for any help anyone
> might be able to give.
>
> sincerely,
>
> Mike
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Mike,
There's also a very nice utility call fetchmail. You can use it to
grab mail from a server and store it on your local machine, or
redeliver it, or whatever you'd like to do. It comes from the
Linux/OSS community.
Bill