On 04/28/00, ""Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" wrote:
> I have a very large file, almost half a Gig. It's an MBX File that Outlook
> couldn't handle and is comprised of many email with large attachments.
Have you looked at MIME::Parser?
> My question is there a way to force it to read and immediately spit out a
> file or does Perl's file methods always read an entire file and then start
> spitting out smaller files?
Perl will read however much you tell it to. It will usually buffer
the output unless you tell it not to. (see perldoc pervar for $|).
It should flush the buffer when you close the file anyway, so if you're
splitting a file, you should see more and more files as you work your way
through it.
> I'm doing it 2 methods.
Neither method looks like it does what you want. The first is opening
and closing files on every line of input? The second is only writing the
'From: ' line? I didn't look too closely before I erased it. Did you want
to split the files based on the From line? What if there's two emails
from the same person?
Can you use Net::POP3 or Mail::POP3Client to fetch the individual emails
from the POP3 server?
Good Luck,
Douglas Wilson
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