From: | "Darvin Zuch" <darvin(dot)zuch(at)autoprofile(dot)com> |
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To: | "'Howie'" <caffeine(at)toodarkpark(dot)org>, "'Jason C(dot) Leach'" <jcl(at)mail(dot)ocis(dot)net> |
Cc: | "'pgsql-list'" <pgsql-general(at)hub(dot)org> |
Subject: | RE: [GENERAL] Mail to DB. |
Date: | 1999-11-29 04:19:49 |
Message-ID: | 000501bf3a20$fa3e3ad0$0ddba8c0@zuchdarvinjava.aprofile.com |
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I understand Oracle 8i does something like this (also acting as an FTP
backend).
You might want to scower their site for good ideas
Darvin Zuch
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
[mailto:owner-pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org]On Behalf Of Howie
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 1999 3:39 PM
To: Jason C. Leach
Cc: pgsql-list
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Mail to DB.
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Jason C. Leach wrote:
> hi,
>
> I've read that a few of you are putting email into a postgres DB. I'd
> be interested in doing something similar. Would any of you care to
> share the secret that allows sendmail to deposit the email to a db, or
> how you get it from /var/spool/mail/mailbox into the table when new mail
> arrives?
a friend and i were just talking about this... you could use procmail to
spawn a program that inserts the data into pgsql. youd most likely want
to use LO's for the email body, storing To:, From:, Cc:, and Subject: in a
table ( for queries ).
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Howie <caffeine(at)toodarkpark(dot)org> URL: http://www.toodarkpark.org
"Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you.
Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it."
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