Perl - Automated Email Answering

Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module P410. This topic is presented on public course Using Perl on the Web

Using Perl to answer emails Ð from tasks as simple as sending an automated acknowledgement through to providing fully fledged systems based on email and their content. List servers such as majordomo are written in Perl after all!

Articles and tips on this subject		updated
2235	Sending awkward characters by email in Perl Carrying on from the email work I described in a recent article, I wrote an example today in Perl where I used the mailx program to send an email, piping to it in a system call via an echo. For a one-liner, without special characters in the text, this is easy ... but to get echo to pass through all ...	2009-06-12
2232	Why sendmail one way, and pop3 the other? When you send emails, you'll use a "sendmail" protocol / service, whereas when you receive them, you'll typically use a "pop3" or similar protocol / service. Why not use just one protocol for all the stages of email transmission? Well in sendmail protocol, the client program pushes the email to a ...	2009-06-12
872	Email metrics How many emails do YOU get each day? How many of them are unsolicited bulk emails that you throw away without evening opening them, or have your server reject? A long time ago, I wrote a PHP script that gives me a quick traffic graph looking back a number of weeks so that I can spot a changing pattern ...	2008-09-15

Examples from our training material

am2	Emailing from a Perl script to a variety or recipients
automail	Emailing from a Perl Script
mailsender.pl	Mail form - sending email from Perl
pop3.pl	Using POP3 protocol to read emails into a Perl program

Background information

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Topics covered in this module

Automatically sending emails.
Unix and Linux: cron, at and batch.
The user name.
Using port 25.
Reading email via POP3 or other protocols.
Automatically processing received emails.
through POP3.
through SMTP.
An email responder.
Automatic at both ends!.
Processing an email file.

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