Re: How are people using Mail::Box?

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Peter Davis wrote:

> Do people already have mail readers based on Mail::Box working?  I'd be
> happy not to repeat work that's already done.

We use it for a lot of processes at the moment:

- Handling of messages sent by our AV solution.

  We select those listing local sources of infection and lookup the
  e-mail address associated with the IP address mentioned in the first
  trustworthy Received-line. After that we create a new security
  incident, apply our policy and send a warning to that address and put
  it in a null-route if appropriate. I am thinking of rewriting this, so
  it can be used in RT.

- Automated sending of internal bulkmail that is compliant with our
  policy (including attachments).

- Processing of denied DNS updates found in the BIND logs of our DNS
  hosts generated by local Windows systems where this default "feature"
  is not disabled by the admin. This script sends a request to the owner
  of such boxes to adjust its settings.

- Lots of small stuff.

Privately I am writing a tool based on Mail::Box to automate my GnuPG
keysigning sessions.

Mind you, these are all non-interactive mailprocessing scripts! No
problems with Mail::Box at all. Performance is not always the best, but
that's to be expected from a module with so many features. We recently
migrated the IMAP host used for this from UW-IMAP (mbox) to courier-imap
(Maildir), but only very minor tweaks were needed to get the scripts
running again. Most of those were not even due to Mail::Box itself! This
definitely is a useful module if you want to process mail, be it
through CGI or not.

Good luck!

Grx HdV