[NTLUG:Discuss] Email scanner

Greg Edwards greg at nas-inet.com
Tue Jul 11 11:11:34 CDT 2006


Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>>Greg Edwards wrote:
>>
>>>Does anyone know of any OSS tools, with source, that scans email files?  I 
>>>need to extract To: and From: addresses.  I'm lazy and if the wheel 
>>>already exists ;)  It's not a complicated program, just time consuming.
>>>
>>>I'd prefer it written in C, C++ would be ok, if necessary.  It needs to be 
>>>a binary, not scripted, solution.

> How about formail?  It normally comes as part of the procmail
> distribution.
> 
>     formail -x From -x To -c <email
> 
> Pm

This looks like it could be a place to start, thanks

-- 
Greg Edwards



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