Perl/Tk Biff—Free Perl Code

Project Home: The project home and latest releases can be found at: http://www.garot.com/projects/PerlTkBiff

Abstract: This software scans a POP3 mail account, tests against a highly configurable rule-set, then performs desired actions.

This is fully functional software. It is also a useful example of Perl/Tk running on Windows 2000. ActivePerl for Windows 2000 contains the necessary Tk modules in the bundle, and can be downloaded at ActiveState.Com. POP3 is handled by the Net::POP3 module; Color coding is handled by Tk-TextANSIColor v0.14.

License: PerlTkBiff follows the Gnu Public License (GPL).

Features: color coded message alerts audible notification window pop-up notification forwarding messages to another address forwarding messages to a cell phone, with body cleanup and truncation logfile generation rules (filters) based upon regular expressions

Impetus: I turned off automatic E-mail notification on my POP3 mail client long ago due to SPAM. I missed being notified of important E-mail. I had heard that some POP3 E-mail clients have a setting to allow only messages from known addresses come through. This sparked my interest. I thought that perhaps I could extend this functionality by creating rules based upon regular expressions. I also liked the idea of having the software be interpreted so that it could potentially be platform independent.

More information: anthonygarot@users.sourceforge.net