[Tfug] Perl Scripts and Email

[Chad Woolley]

By "work on windows machines", do you mean without installing
anything?  In that case, I'd say you need some .netish sort of thing
which will let build you an executable.

If this is just for a few boxes and you can install stuff (or write a
script to), I'd suggest just using Ruby.  ActionMailer (part of Ruby
on Rails) is a crossplatform mail API:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/ActionMailer
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToSendEmailsWithActionMailer
http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/

Good luck, and thanks for the laptop ;)
-- Chad

On 7/11/06, Christopher Robbins <robbinsc at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm working on some Perl scripts for work - the script greps through
> logfiles and if certain strings are matched (eg - "virus found", "spyware
> found", etc) they are to send me an email with the relevant client data (IP
> address, client info, date/time).  I know I can use perl and sendmail to
> shoot me an email with this information, but I need the script to work on
> Windows machines as well.  Is this possible?
>
> I'm doing the research now, but I was curious if anyone else had done this
> before and knew the answer....
>
> Thanks again
>
> -Chris
>
> --
> Chris Robbins
> Dept. of English Technical Support
> http://www.homerengineeringcorp.net
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