[CLUE-Tech] Auto-Mailers in Perl

[Jed S. Baer]

Greetings.

I'm looking for an easy way to automate a few mail handling functions,
mostly usenet spam reports. Functionality is very limited:
  Boilerplate text
  Parsing for X-Complaints-To or similar headers
  whois.arin.net lookups
  send complaints via SMTP

I can write all of this easily enough by myself, but why re-invent the
wheel?

I did a cpan search for "mail", and found many modules already sitting
there. If anyone has any feedback on modules like Mail::Sendmail,
Mail::SMI, or Mail::SpamAssassin, or any other easy SMTP (via my ISP) type
tools, I'd appreciate the feedback. (SpamAssasin is sort of an afterthough
here, though.)

I've looked also at the Net::Whois stuff, and I didn't see arin lookups
there, so my plan is to just "qx" a whois command, and parse that. Looks
like those modules are targeted towards domain registrars.

TIA
jed

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