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Re: using Email to Perl to append to a changelog.txt, html, or .xls?by DaWolf (Curate) |
on Nov 22, 2004 at 22:06 UTC ( [id://409751]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
++ Xenograg. I've completely fogot about this approach.
Just to expand the idea a little bit, you (the OP) could create an e-mail address specific for this task (assuming the mail server resides on the same machine as the Perl log script*). For an example system_log@your_domain.com. Then you can, as Xenograg wisely suggested, make a script that checks this e-mail account and do the append stuff. This approach has at least two advantages from my original post:
* I've stated this for the sake of performance and to the application to be practical. If the mail server is in another machine I think this could get a little messy. Best regards,
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