[aklug] Re: e-mail scripting

* Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> [121231 17:09]:
> 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?)
 
  I don't follow exactly what you are up to here, but having set up
  things like submissions to databases via email, I suppose those
  methods could be better leveraged by apps like mutt, pine, and
  alpine which are designed for shell access.
  MTCW

> 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.
>
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>

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Tim 
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