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From: E.D.G. on 11 Jul 2010 04:15 After consulting with various parties including the ones who are running the Web server where I have a Web site it appears that not too many people know how to answer these types of questions. So, back to the Perl Newsgroup. Question: Can anyone recommend a specific Perl language program that can be stored on a Web site where it will do the following? --- Accept an E-mail letter sent to some address at the Web site --- Extract attached files such as GIF picture files from the E-mail letter --- Store those picture files in some directory at the Web site A Perl language program would be best. But for the moment, probably a program written in any language that can run at a Web site would work. And again, there might be a sizeable number of Perl programs out there that can do that. But there are likely just a few that people are recommending more than others. For doing bulletin board work the "Movable Type" program is presently being evaluated.
From: Tad McClellan on 11 Jul 2010 13:09 E.D.G. <edgrsprj(a)ix.netcom.com> wrote: > Subject: Re: CGI Program Questions You do not need a CGI program for this. CGI programs are for responding to HTTP requests. Nothing in your problem description leads me to believe that there is an HTTP request anywhere that needs to be responded to... Please re-read RedGrittyBrick's response again. It is chock full of good advice. If you don't understand what was said, ask a specific question about the part that you didn't understand. > After consulting with various parties including the ones who are running the > Web server where I have a Web site it appears that not too many people know > how to answer these types of questions. Perhaps that is because what you request has nothing whatsoever to do with the World Wide Web. > Question: Can anyone recommend a specific Perl language program that can be > stored on a Web site where it will do the following? > --- Accept an E-mail letter sent to some address at the Web site This has nothing to do with any Web site. This has something to do with email. email and the www are separate services, conflating them will make it harder for you to find a solution. I'm not too sure what "accept" means here. Do you have a working email system already? That is, can you send an email to the address that you want, and then read that email? Configuring email is not a Perl topic. > --- Extract attached files such as GIF picture files from the E-mail letter That depends on how the files are attached. Seems likely that a module with "MIME" in its name would be helpful with that part. > --- Store those picture files in some directory at the Web site perldoc -f open perldoc -f binmode perldoc -f print > A Perl language program would be best. Writing a Perl language program would be best. Learn Perl or find someone who already knows Perl to do your job for you. -- Tad McClellan email: perl -le "print scalar reverse qq/moc.liamg\100cm.j.dat/" The above message is a Usenet post. I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site.
From: J�rgen Exner on 11 Jul 2010 14:08 "E.D.G." <edgrsprj(a)ix.netcom.com> wrote: >After consulting with various parties including the ones who are running the >Web server where I have a Web site it appears that not too many people know >how to answer these types of questions. Maybe that is because of the type of question? Not many people would be able to answer a question about how to use a bicycle to cross a white water river, either. >So, back to the Perl Newsgroup. > >Question: Can anyone recommend a specific Perl language program that can be >stored on a Web site where it will do the following? > >--- Accept an E-mail letter sent to some address at the Web site Extremely unlikely because email are not send to web site addresses. They are send to email addresses which have nothing whatsoever to do with WWW. >--- Extract attached files such as GIF picture files from the E-mail letter Check any of the MIME modules. Chances are (although there is no guarantee) that the email client used MIME encoding for the attachement. >--- Store those picture files in some directory at the Web site Where is the problem? Doesn't open() and print() work (depeding on your platform you may need to investigate binmode()? jue
From: E.D.G. on 11 Jul 2010 15:14 "J�rgen Exner" <jurgenex(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:iq1k36l55den08rbpgdf2lgoba8ddfc6c0(a)4ax.com... >>--- Accept an E-mail letter sent to some address at the Web site > > Extremely unlikely because email are not send to web site addresses. > They are send to email addresses which have nothing whatsoever to do > with WWW. This looks like it is more complicated than originally thought. The following is an outline of the situation. Like most Internet users who have Web sites I am either renting Web site space on some commercial firm's Web server or am using a free Web site. Let's say I have site A on one Web server and site B on another. With each I have registered with the site an E-mail address that server personnel can use to contact me. With site A I can send an E-mail to that server using my registered E-mail address. And the server will automatically extract picture files from my E-mail and store them in one of the directories at my Web site. Unfortunately that service seems to run one day and not the next. Sever B appears to me to be more reliable. And they have E-mail handling programs available with my Web site package. But they do not have programs in place that will extract files from E-mails sent to that Web server. And it has been my assumption that some program at CPAN or at some other location could be downloaded and stored at my Web site. And it would do the same thing that is being done with the site on the A server. From these discussions and my discussions with the people running server B I am getting the impression that this E-mail file processing feature might actually need to be built into the server itself. It could be that it cannot be added by individual users. With some further checking it should be possible to determine if that is or is not the case. If not then I will simply have to run my Web site on server B without that E-mail reading option.
From: E.D.G. on 11 Jul 2010 15:19
"Tad McClellan" <tadmc(a)seesig.invalid> wrote in message news:slrni3juf5.283.tadmc(a)tadbox.sbcglobal.net... This looks it could be more complicated than I thought. It might even be impossible with the Internet service I am using. Details can be found in my response to J�rgen Exner's post. |