Re: Help! Simple web posting program needed.

From: tim@pelican.org (Tim Franklin)

Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:06:47 +0000

MadCentral <madcentral@aol.com> wrote:
>>>PERL....(http://www.perl.com) will do this fairly easily, but you'll need to
>nick or write scipts to do it.<<
>
>Will it?  I bought a couple of Perl books and looked at them as a possible
>solution, but I couldn't see any functions which seemed to handle the email
>functions necessary.  Loads of variable, database etc functions, but not a lot
>of 'send file' type commands.

It's not in core Perl, it's in the Mail:: and MIME:: series of modules.
www.cpan.org is your source for Perl modules.

Reading your other post, most of the Perl mail stuff relies on having an SMTP
server to talk SMTP to directly, not MAPI -> Outlook (or whatever) -> your
ISP.  You could get it to use your ISPs SMTP server if you don't want to run
your own, as long as you only run the script while on-line.

I've been doing a fair bit of this myself for my own dabblings into PBEM - have
something working that does autoresponding, parsing an email for simple
commands, and will send replies, optionally with attached files.  Give me a
shout if you think it could be of help.

Regards,
Tim.

References

Re: Help! Simple web posting program needed.
"James Blessing" <james@zen.co.uk>
Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:43:00 +0000
Re: Help! Simple web posting program needed.
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Wed, 18 Jul 2001 15:54:04 +0000