On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 09:29:40AM -0600, Jay Kline wrote: > At the company I work for, we have a "trap all" email account, which > collects most every piece of mail sent here. On an average day, it > recieves 15 to 20 thousand emails a day, and is stored in a standard > POP account. Because a large number of these messages are server > generated, all that is important is the sender email address and the > subject line (for most anyway) Is there some way I can automate a > process that goes through these emails, and creates a text file > containing the email address and the subject line, without having to > download the whole message? (in other words, one text file on my > machine that would get very large very quickly- one line per > email/subject) Some filtering capibilities would be nice, but not > required. I can do that later with grep if need be. > > Any help or advice would be great. Perl has a Mail::POP3Client package that looks about right. -- johntrammell at yahoo.com | 78BA 706C C5F9 9321 E7C4 933B D063 907B A88E 924B Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 240 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011107/8ac65315/attachment.pgp