Hi there, On Thu, 24 Apr 2014, Jeffrey Starin wrote:
... We are new to perl
Then you have some work to do, but I promise it will be worth it. :) Perl is THE text processing language. If we didn't have Perl, we'd have to invent it. Buy and read the following book http://www.amazon.co.uk/Programming-Perl-Unmatched-processing-scripting/dp/0596004923 You might also buy and read http://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Perl-Randal-L-Schwartz/dp/1449303587 and perhaps dip into http://www.amazon.co.uk/Perl-Cookbook-Tom-Christiansen/dp/0596003137 If you only want to buy one of them, buy the 'Camel' book. That's the Perl coder's absolutely-must-have book. Again, I promise it will be worth it. To back up that promise if you don't think so after reading it three times (that's how many times I had to read it before I could really say I'd understood it) then I'll buy it from you for the price advertised in that link, GBP34.10 + free postage, assuming you haven't trashed the book of course. My latest copy is only the 3rd edition, I have two copies each of the first two editions. This is the only book amongst the approximately three tonnes of books which I own of which I have five hard copies. I also have electronic copies, on the LAN.
and certainly MIMEdefang and could use some hand-holding.
There are many scripts already posted on this and other mailing lists, and there are some in the MIMEDefang distribution. As I said you have some work to do, but on the bright side I estimate that it's ten times quicker to get something running in Perl as it is in, say, C. Just be aware that Perl can use a lot of resources compared languages like C. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
