Email Utilities

This is a great little subroutine for PHP coders who are working on Perl projects. It attempts to mirror the functionality of the PHP mail() function in Perl without requiring you to deal with manually opening a pipe to sendmail and printing the message to the pipe.

The World Wide ProxEmail 1.0 script will allow you to use your servers mail server without revealing your PC's IP address in your mailings. For example, if you use mass mailing software from your PC and you connect to your SMTP server to send mail with this software, most of the time, the IP address of your PC is included in the mail headers. This IP can be used to file SPAM complaints against you to your ISP or also allow attacks to be launched against your IP address. You can also use this with mail programs such as Outlook and Eudora.

Opera Right Pronto is a GPL Perl script to import an Opera 6.x email contact list into Pronto. This is eminently useful for Windows users who are just moving into Linux and need their contacts list imported with ease. Just place ORP and your Opera contacts file in the same directory as Pronto(usually /home/user/.pronto) and run the script! A README and the GPL text files are included.

Fully configurable SPAM/virus filter for qmail servers. Set up in five minutes. Free trial version download. Each user may set up their own filtering rules and/or use global rules. Filter any header, the body, attachment filenames, and MIME types. Bounce or drop blocked messages. Use custom bounce messages to tell non-SPAMmers how to get email through in case of false positives, or to alert people infected with worms that they need to disinfect. Full version: $70 per server or $175 per company.

Installs qmail, serialmail, checkpassword, ucspi-tcp, and creates other files as per user input. Nothing has to be configured manually, the software does it all - from untaring tar files to writing files on your disk. Just run a simple command and the software will do the rest for you! Try it out!

Mail::Audit::Centipaid is an email filter that is used to detect the precence of electronic postage. Once detected, the postage is checked against the receipt server of Centipaid.com to insure that the the proper payment has been made. Centipaid.com can process electronic postage as low as $0.001. The idea of this filter came about as another method to control the growing problem of SPAM, which was proposed by the Adaptive Mail Delivery Protocol (AMDP). Please refer to amdpmail.com for more info. Mail::Audit::Centipaid can be used by individuals or companies to designate one or more email accounts SPAM free. Only paid email will be allowed through the filter.

This script will allow Perl programs running on an NT server to send email through SMTP to a server that requests authentication. If your email server does not require you to authenticate then you don't need this script, but if it does this is one of the only scripts out there that does it.

QAdmin-TMDA is a configuration and administration tool for the TMDA Anti-Spam solution. It integrates itself into the Qmailadmin Web management tool for qmail. This application allows you to protect any individual account, edit any configuration files from the Web, and control every aspect of the anti-spam counter measures.

A server-side anti-spam email filtering solution. Moves spam out of your pop email account and into a quarantine file so you don't have to download or read it. Powerfully accurate filters you define and control through a web browser. Filters are based upon a "point system" where bad words or phrases get negative points and good words or phrases get positive points. Messages scoring below the Quarantine Score Limit will be quarantined. You control all the words/phrases, points and scoring.

Roving webmasters can send personal emails, using Sendmail, from their own website. You may find that you need to email someone urgently, but you can't access your own email client, and you don't want to use a service like Hotmail or Yahoo; you want the email to look professional, and have the Reply-to address to be your business one. Set up this script, and the recipient will never know the difference. You can cc the email to your main email address, so you can keep a copy.

This script allows you to send emails from any computer, with up to 10 attachments. Unlike most attachemnt emailing scripts, you do not need complex libraries to install, everything is self contained. It uses Sendmail so virtually every *nix server will be able to run this script.

The World Wide Email Verifier will verify a list of email addresses with a DNS query. This will check the validity of the domain name in the email address. Works on the command line (not through your browser). This script should filter up to 80% of invalid email addresses.

mail2mysql.pl is a script which reads a mailbox file, parses the messages and inserts them into a MySQL database. Written to send notices via e-mail and have them displayed on the web, this script monitors an e-mail box for messages, and when a message arrives it gets put into a database. The database entries are displayed on a webpage using PHP. Requires mhonarc, an e-mail to HTML converter, and MailTools module.

AutoContact allows a webmaster to send up to 4 unique follow-up emails to customers or leads at set times in the future. The email follow-up list is created automatically by adding a small code snippet to your existing form handler.

BlockedMail is a perl script that will automate the process of deleting big mails from a mailbox. It can be used to check a mailbox on any server and will give you the option to delete any large mails. It will also give you the option to delete all mails in the mailbox.

This is an email address validation script. It is good enough to allow direct subscriptions to Majordomo lists and prevent Majordomo from aborting.

SendEmail is a lightweight, completly command line based, SMTP email program. If you have the need to send email from a command prompt this tool is perfect. It supports attachments, multiple To, CC, and Bcc recipients, SMTP AUTH, custom message headers, and many other features. It was designed to be used in bash scripts, Perl programs, and web sites, but it is also quite useful in many other contexts. SendEmail is written in Perl and is unique in that it requires NO SPECIAL MODULES. It has a straight forward interface, making it very easy to use.

This Perl script allows you to process rejected message entries from the sendmail logfile.

Most mail filtering programs will give you stats on how many messages you received and from whom. Here is a short Perl5 script that will (using sendmail(8) log files) tell you how many messages you sent and to whom.

MHonArc is a Perl program for converting e-mail messages as specified in RFC 822 and the MIME standard to HTML. MHonArc can perform the following tasks: Convert MH mail folders or UUCP/Unix style mailboxes into an HTML mail archive, Add or remove messages to an existing HTML mail archive generated by MHonArc, Convert a single message to HTML, A main customizable index for mail messages archived, A customizable thread index listing messages by thread, Control over message formatting, and The ability to hook in your own custom message filters.