[thelist] accessing mail in unix(linux)

[Adrian Fischer]

Heres another one,

using perl can I access the ".mail" file in my "/" directory.  The idea
being that I open and read it using pattern matching or the like...find what
I want and update a mysql table accordingly.

I can ftp to it and read it but cant seem to telnet to it.  Can get the
directory but the file is hidden(?)

I would be doing a cron job to run the perl script to read the .mail file
ever now and then.

I have the cron job tip from the archives...its the reading the .mail file
with perl thats go me stumped.

Any ideas.


Adrian Fischer
Brisbane
Australia