Re: how to extract data from web form e-mails?

DN writes:

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.


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