Raymond Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Currently, I'm trying to find out a way to automatically
> save email messages (from MS Exchange / Pop3) to text
> files in a directory.
I'd be less worried about Perl than about MS *anything*.
Perl could do the job, but I doubt that MS provides hooks
for you to grab hold of. If you're willing to do a
POP3/Perl job, enjoy. There are other recommendations to
modules that may serve you. But you'd be rewriting a MUA.
(If you don't know what a MUA is, you probably shouldn't
tackle this job.) The MS philosophy is not open enough to
allow the kind of integration or encapsulation that you
probably want.
[begin rant]
There's a major paradigm shift here. MS thinks that their
products are an *end* product, and as such have put no
engineering into its design as a piece of a bigger product.
And even when they do have interfaces between parts (as
between the MUA and MTA), they are either not documented, or
subject to change at their own whim -- the assumption being
that they are the only users of the interface.
Occasionally, they intentionally break the interface when
they find that it's being used by non-MS products just to
prevent open systems. They think that all smart people work
for MS, therefore they don't want stupid people being
destructive (what you'd call creative). Alghough they're
getting better, they're not open system team players. "Open
systems" is a *marketing* term to MS, not a *technical*
term.
[end rant]
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Michael R. Wolf
All mammals learn by playing!
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