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How to read email using mailx in shell script or perl

Hello,

I am new to mailx and perl and I need help.

I need create a shell script to read the mails on the SUN server, then parse the subject line and message body of each email to extract particular data so that I can pass these data fields in as application parameters to invoke a java client application from the script. This logic need to be run every so many minutes to check for new email in the user's system mailbox.

I was thinking of using mailx in shell script. Is there a way I can parse the mail stream and pipe the extracted data to the java application inside mailx? Or do I have to copy the mail into a file, exit/quit mailx, then process the contents in the file later from the shell script? Or is there a better way using Perl?

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