On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 03:10:29PM +0000, eric wrote:
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> > I'm not aware of any _reason_ you'd want to recieve mail in a Perl
> > program -- that's what your MTA is there for.
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> Using perl to create your own MUA, using perl to create an
> autoresponder, blah, blah, blah..., using perl to grab the stuff
> from your inbox and then process it.
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Possibly my misunderstanding of what the OP meant by 'recieve' -- all
that stuff happens at the filesystem level or MDA level, not at the
level of receipt, at least to my mind. (I had visions of him trying to
get a daemon to listen on 25 and accept connections. :) )
--
Greg White
