[aklug] Re: e-mail scripting

From: Shane Spencer <shane@bogomip.com>
Date: Wed Jan 02 2013 - 10:24:08 AKST

Personally. Along with others that replied.. I use Fetchmail and Procmail.

On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 8:37 PM, barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net> wrote:

>
> I use bogofilter, but Royce's idea is sound.
>
>
>
> Quoting Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org>:
>
> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> * Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@**frigidcode.com<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.
>>>
>>>
>> Thinking further on this ... if someone is mailing the documents to you,
>> couldn't you instead provide them with a web interface that converts and
>> publishes the files directly?
>>
>> In other words: why shoehorn the workflow into email, only to pull it out
>> again? Skip the middle man. Use the richer set of tools available,
>> instead
>> of being constrained by only the things that email can do.
>>
>> I think I'm up to $0.08 now. And no, just because the notation is
>> decimal,
>> squaring cents doesn't diminish their number. ;-)
>>
>> Royce
>>
>>
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