Re: how to extract data from web form e-mails?
- From: "Steve Horrillo" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 19:24:12 GMT
On 9-Jul-2005, Sam <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I receive e-mails from web form submissions and need to automatically
> > transfer the data into a Microsoft Access database. Can anyone suggest a
> >
> > good product that would take the data from the e-mails and either save
> > it
> > to a file (comma or tab delimited) for later importing into Access or
> > write
> > the data directly to Access?
>
> This is a highly specialized situation; it's possible, but highly
> doubtful,
> that there might be a commercial product that does something like that.
> And
> the realm of free software won't help you either. On Linux or Unix
> normally
> it should not take more than an hour, or so, to set up an E-mail address
> that runs a Perl script that swallows up E-mail and automatically uploads
> it
> to MySQL or PostgreSQL. Even though there's a Windows port of Perl,
> because
> both your E-mail client and Access are closed commercial products, the
> chances of getting free software tools to interoperate with them are zero.
Look into ParseRat (www.guysoftware.com), or search for the term "file
parser."
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