Mail::Miner version 2.1 ======================= 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 mysql installed. To install this module, create a new mysql 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. Next you'll need to ensure that you've set the MM_DATABASE, MM_USER and MM_PASSWORD environment variables. If MM_PASSWORD happens to start with a / or a . and a file of that name exists, the password will be read from a file; if it happens to be a directory, then the password will be read from $MM_PASSWORD/$MM_USER. DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: MIME::Parser Date::Manip Mail::Address Class::DB::mysql Lingua::EN::Keywords SUPPORT I've released this software because I find it useful, and I hope you might too. But I am a being of finite time and I'd like to spend more of it writing cool modules like this and less of it answering email, so please excuse me if the support isn't as great as you'd like. Nevertheless, there is a general discussion list for users of all my modules, to be found at http://lists.netthink.co.uk/listinfo/module-mayhem If you have a problem with this module, someone there will probably have it too. COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Simon Cozens. GPL & AL.