Perl E-mail Script

[tgpaul]

Hi all,

 

I need a bit of direction to write a Perl script that will filter e-mails tagged by Spam Assassin according to a set of rules. I know that within the E-mail filtering page in cPanel I choose "SpamAssassin Spam Header begins with Yes" and then I pipe it to my script "|/home/user/spam.pl".

 

From here, I have no clue what to do. I don't know what the e-mail looks like to the script at this point, and I am unsure how to extract basic header information and make decisions based on this information. Some of the information I would like includes destination user mail account (not necessarily the same as the "To" field if it was forwarded), and the SA spam score.

 

I'm thinking something along the lines of this:

If score >= 10 then discard

else put it in the intended recipients spam folder (~/mail/user/Spam)

 

I am a programmer and know a bit of Perl, so I'm not asking someone to write this for me. I just need some resources with examples of what such a script might look like.

 

Thanks.

 

TGP

[tgpaul]

Well, I seem to have made a bit of progress.

 

I had the nice tech support people install a perl lib called Mail::Audit on server99. It contains excellent functions for doing just what I'm looking for. I'll post my code when it's complete. In the mean time, please throw out some suggestions!

 

TGP

[TCH-Don]

Wish I could help,

but I just use php.

But thanks for sharing

and maybe others fluent in pearl or just those needing this will offer some ideas.

[tgpaul]

Wish I could help,

but I just use php.

But thanks for sharing

and maybe others fluent in pearl or just those needing this will offer some ideas.

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Don,

 

Do you do mail filtering in php, or do you just know php in general? I have no preference of language for this script.

 

 

TGP

[TCH-Don]

No filtering, I just know a enough to be dangerous

 

I like php for forms and making a modular site with includes

and it seems php scripts are easier to read.

the more I use it the more I like it.

 

I do all my e-mail filtering spam assassin and with pop tray for e-mail.