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Perl/Tk Biff—Free Perl Code
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Abstract: This software scans a POP3 mail account, tests against a highly
configurable rule-set, then performs desired actions. This is fully functional software.
It is also a useful example of Perl/Tk.
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Platform: Originally written on Win32, it now works on Linux.
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Perl/Modules: PerlTkBiff has been tested on perl v5.8.0
on Win32 and linux. ActivePerl for Windows 2000 contains the necessary Tk modules
in the bundle, and can be downloaded at
ActiveState.Com.
POP3 is handled by the Net::POP3 module; Color coding is handled by
Tk-TextANSIColor v0.14.
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License: PerlTkBiff follows the Gnu Public License (GPL).
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Features:
- color coded message alerts
- audible notification
- window pop-up notification
- forward messages to another address
- forward messages to a CELL Phone, with body cleanup and truncation
- logfile generation
- rules (filters) based upon regular expressions
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Impetus: I turned off automatic E-mail notification on my POP3 mail client
long ago due to SPAM. I missed being notified of important E-mail. I
had heard that some POP3 E-mail clients have a setting to allow only
messages from known addresses come through. This sparked my interest.
I thought that perhaps I could extend this functionality by creating
rules based upon regular expressions. I also liked the idea of having
the software be interpreted so that it could potentially be platform
independent.
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