Thanks for the tips, Chris. Ill start looking at the documentation of the code you pointed.
On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 17:14, Chris Devers wrote: > On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Sanjay Arora wrote: > > > I am using RH9, postgreSQL and perl5. I would like to get my system to > > automatically visit a site, go to the login url, login, browse to the > > mail/messages link and get the messages one by one and save them in a > > postgreSQL database. > > Okay. Do you have any code do do any of this? > > If not, take a look at the CPAN modules DBI (you should already have > this), DBD::Pg (the PostgreSQL database driver), and LWP (available most > easily in cpan as Bundle::LWP). Also, WWW::Mechanize might be useful. > For sending mail there's many options, but Mail::Simple might be easy. > BTW, its not SMTP mail I want, its webmail of the particular web-sites. If you have any seperate pointers for this, please let me know. > Get these installed using the CPAN shell, then look over the docs & try > some starter code. If you hit any stumbling blocks, let the list know. > > > I would like to do this with multiple sites. Is this possible with > > perl? What modules do I need? Are any readymade scripts that can be > > adapted to my needs available? > > Yes this is all possible, and done regularly by many people. The catch > is that everyone who does this has slightly different needs, so code for > doing all of this may not be available in one place. So, like I say, > look over the documentation for these modules and try some code to do > aspects of your project, and then start plugging it all together. > If you know of any pieces of code, you mentioned as being scattered on the net, please let me know, if its not too much of any effort. You see I am newbie at perl. In fact, I code with books open in front of me and couple of helping web-site tutorials open on my screen....referring to them every two minutes. Understanding how somebody has done something for another website will go a long way for my coding effort. IAC, I am talking before I have even started....guess its my nervousness as a newbie speaking. Ill start looking at the documentation you mentioned and revert to the list, in case I have any problems. Thanks again. With best regards. Sanjay. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
