If I wanted to use a Perl script to redirect my email, where on my system should this script go? Thanks for any help.

is it a remote pop3 account, if so what are you using to get your email? or is it your local mailbox, like root@yourBox?

_peace

It's a local mailbox on my own system.

The location of the script wouldn't make any difference - its function would still be the same - or am I missing something?

Have you considered using a .forward file in your home directory?

cheers

Jamie...

I'm not sure. That's why I asked. I figured the script had to be located somewhere specific.

Cool,

The script doesn't *need* be be anywhere specific but I would put it in the user home directory, partially for the sake of being tidy, and partially to stop other users from reading it (this may not be an issue on a small home system). Then I'd run it from Cron (see 'man crond' and 'man crontab' for more detail) so that it was executed at regular intervals.

Do you know about .forward files? If you create a file in your home directory called .forward and put in that file an email address any mail for that user will be redirected for you. Is this what you were going to do with the Perl script or was it something more complex?

Cheers.

Jamie...

Actually,
I was just creating an auto-reply. I was going to append a message saying why'd you send me this, and then I was going to reverse all the characters in the original message. I know it's stupid, but I had some free time and I was playing around in Perl. How exactly do those .forward files work? Is it just a shell script?

Playing around with Perl is probably the best way to learn it

If you create a .forward file in the home directory of a user, and chmod that file so its 644, in the file put another email address (literally a single line with an email addres on it) then send mail to that user.

The system should read the .forward file, and forward the email to that address rather than delivering it locally. I think this functionatlity is provided directly by sendmail but it might be procmail, it seems to exist on most systems I've used though.

Cheers.

Jamie...

Jamie,

Thanks for your quick reply. I'll definitely check out that .forward file.

Dear Friends,

I got a problem in working with CGI PERL. I was placed my hello.pl (PERL Program) in cgi-bin directory in Apache server in Linuc Machine. But I couldn't get the result.I got the error 'File Not Found' Error.

Can u help me ..

Regards,
Senthamizh Selvan.

Make sure you specify the full path to the file

if you post new topics under the main forum they will get more attention....

Check the path is correct as already mentioned but also you will need to enable execution of CGI scripts on the server. If you want to be able to execute them anywhere (not the best for security, but the lazyiest) you can add to the options for '/' in httpd.conf. You'll also want to check that

# To use CGI scripts:
#
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
AddHandler cgi-script .pl

is uncommented too.

HTH

Jamie...

PS - Also as mentioned before, start a new thread!!