Mail body munging: state of the art?

[Jonathan Stowe]

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 12:40, Andy Armstrong wrote:
> I'm playing with an idea that I've been mulling over for a while. I  
> suppose you could call it a kind of CRM. The idea is that I have a  
> mail filter running on my server that can annotate incoming mail in a  
> number of ways - the thing I'm playing with for the proof of concept  
> is to look the From: address up with the Flickr API and then, if the  
> sender has a Flickr account include a link to it at the foot of the  
> email. In general I want to use it to attach arbitrary factoids about  
> the sender to my incoming mail.
> 
> I want to be able to add annotations in a way that works reliably  
> regardless of the format of the mail - if it's a multipart mail with  
> HTML and plain text versions I'd like to add the annotation to both  
> versions for example.
> 
> What should I be using? What's the state of the art for parsing /  
> modifying / recreating mail?

Email::Simple and/or Email::MIME are the modules du jour - with the
added bonus  that you can slap the perpetrators every once in a while at
London.pm meet.

See http://pep.kwiki.org/

/J\
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