Subj : ANNOUNCE: Mail::Audit 1.6 is available
To   : All
From : Simon Cozens
Date : Sat Jan 13 2001 05:32 pm

From: Simon Cozens <simon@brecon.co.uk>


Mail::Audit is a module which helps you create mail filters in Perl; it's a 
replacement for procmail. Here's a sample mail filter:

        use Mail::Audit;
        my $mail = new Mail::Audit;
        $mail->resend('william@somewhere.edu')
           if ($mail->from =~ /peter/ and $mail->subject =~ /compilers/);
        $mail->accept;


For New Users
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This release of Mail::Audit contains a new, experimental tool called "proc2ma" 
which attempts to convert your existing .procmailrc into a Mail::Audit filter. 
It's not perfect, but it's a good start. proc2ma requires Parse::RecDescent.

Mail::Audit featured in The Perl Journal; the article is reproduced at 
http://simon-cozens.org/writings/mail-audit.html
This is an introduction to mail and news filtering with Perl modules.

For Existing Users
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If you, like me, get most of your mail from a POP3 server, and you've been 
using fetchmail, you'll notice that Mail::Audit can drive up your load average; 
this is because fetchmail has to fork a new copy of perl every time it delivers 
a mail. This is horrific.

This version of Mail::Audit includes popread, a stand-alone POP3 mail fetcher 
and filter, which does everything in one process. popread also checks for and 
removes duplicate messages on the server before downloading.

popread requires Mail::POP3Client.

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Can you sum up plan 9 in layman's terms? It does everything Unix does only less 
reliably - kt

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