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| Re: Processing Mail with IDL [message #6547 is a reply to message #6472] |
Thu, 04 July 1996 00:00  |
trond
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Registered: June 1994
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In article <4r91if$hdk@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>,
Norbert Hahn <hahn@hrz.th-darmstadt.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to write a IDL program which receive a mail and depending on the
> mail body changes entries in a data base. After processing the mail sender
> should get a reply. The data base already exists and the processing routines
> have been written in IDL. Sending a mail can be done easily by writing the mail
> body into a file and spawing the unix mail command.
>
> But how do I read a mail from within IDL ?
>
> Norbert
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>
if you're on a unix system, I can't see any problems with
letting IDL slurp up your /usr/mail/hahn and sort things out.
But why use a spanner to hammer in a nail? I would do it all
in perl.
trond
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