Perl - Automated Email Answering

Perl module P410

Automated Email Answering

Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module P410. This topic is presented on public course Using Perl on the Web

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Email metrics

How many emails do YOU get each day? How many of them are unsolicited bulk emails that you throw away without evening opening them, or have your server ...

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Using Perl to answer emails Ð from tasks as simple as sending an automated acknowledgement through to providing fully fledged systems based on email and their content. List servers such as majordomo are written in Perl after all!

This topic is presented on public course Using Perl on the Web

Examples from our training material

am2	Emailing from a Perl script to a variety or recipients
automail	Emailing from a Perl Script
mailsender.pl	Mail form - sending email from Perl
pop3.pl	Using POP3 protocol to read emails into a Perl program

Background information

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Topics covered in this module

Cron, at and batch.
Can I find the user's name?
Mailing modules from the CPAN.
Using SMTP directly - RFC 821 and 822.
Reading email via POP3.
Automatic processing of emails.
An email responder.
Using autosend / autoreceive to pass firewalls.

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