[aklug] Re: e-mail scripting

Take a look at procmail. That's what I used to use. I would use fetchmail
to pop the mail from the server, pass it to procmail, and that would pass
it through span and virus filters, filter it into my mail folders, etc.
 On Dec 31, 2012 4:58 PM, "Christopher Howard" <
christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> wrote:

> Is there anyone else on the list who plays around with scripted
> management / filtering / manipulation of incoming e-mail (i.e., as a
> client, not server-side stuff)? If so what tools do you use? (E.g., what
> e-mail client do you use? How do you pass e-mails to your scripts? What
> languages / utilities do you use?)
>
> Lately I've been in an "automate or die" mood and I've been trying to
> apply that mentality to my incoming e-mail. For example, every week I
> usually get church bulletin documents e-mail to me, so I manually
> convert them to PDF, and upload them to the church Web site. But now I'm
> trying to automate that.
>
> I've been trying to bend Thunderbird to the task, but it isn't really
> designed for automation and scripting. With filters and a few add-ons
> (like AutoExtract) I have been able to make some progress, but it is
> rather clumsy work.
>
> --
> frigidcode.com
>
>

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Received on Mon Dec 31 17:50:06 2012