[plug] Mail - i don't what subject should go here

[Craig Ringer]

Jeff Williams wrote:
> Can't you use scp? Or tunnel some other form of file transfer method 
> over ssh? Processing emails is not going to be a fun thing to do.

If you can't, try looking at CPAN for MIME modules etc for perl. There 
may well already be a module that'll happily separate body text, any 
attachments, etc, from a message. Of course, you have to get it from the 
mail spool to your program. That should be possibly by parsing the 
/var/spool/mail/<username> file - possibly with the assistance of more 
friendly perl modules - and just grabbing messages with a certain [tag] 
in the Subject: line.

I don't envy you this task. scp would definitely be better! BTW SSH and 
scp work a treat under win32 via cygwin (if you want real openssh) or 
using a client like putty otherwise. So windows shouldn't be a problem. 
It even has cron... kinda. Calls it "at" but you can still schedule jobs 
with it.

I'm having to use win2k for 'net access at the moment, hence all the 
windows comments. I create an ssh tunnel to work, forwarding ports for 
SMTP and IMAP, so I can get my mail :-) all from win2k using Cygwin. 
Hell, I can even use the same mail client (mutt remotely, or Mozilla 
locally).

'luck
Craig Ringer