Mail::Miner version 1.0 ========================== If you install Mail::Miner and set it up so that mail is routed through Mail::Audit::Miner (see the documentation) or piped through mm_process, then attachments will be replaced by instructions about how to use the "mm" command-line utility to detach them. You also have a handy database of all your email that you can prod. :) See the "mm" tool for more details of how you can search this database for email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses, and so on. INSTALLATION YOU WILL NEED POSTGRES INSTALLED. * Earlier versions of M::M used Mysql; this is no longer the case, as Mysql is not a real RDBMS. It does not support subselects, although they've apparently been "coming soon" for the past few years. Postgresql is free and it works; please use it instead of Mysql where you can. To install this module, create a new Postgres database according to the schema in miner.sql, and give yourself access to it. Then type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install Now you have to make sure your incoming mail gets processed by Mail::Miner. You can do this by putting a pipe to mm_process in your procmailrc, or, if you're using Mail::Audit, by using Mail::Audit::Miner. (Included in this distribution.) See the documentation for that module for more details. DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: MIME::Parser Date::Manip Mail::Address DBI DBD::Pg SUPPORT This software is currently unsupported. It hasn't eaten my mailbox, but I don't want to say it won't eat yours. But I find it useful, and you might too. COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2002 Simon Cozens. GPL & AL.