4.8 Mail order - extra credit

4.8.1 Group task

• Process the data from your 4.6 topic and send the order information to afixed e-mail account in an e- mail message. Set up the mail message so that the individual fields can be parsed out of the mail message easily, perhaps one per line.

  To send mail on system "cgi", do the following:

  open( MAIL, " | /usr/bin/mail -s \'$s\' $a" ); 
  

  This will open the "file" MAIL as a pipe that you can write to. The data that you write to MAIL will be the body of the message. $s will be the subject at the top of the message. $a will be the destination of the message.

  When I do:

  /usr/bin/mail -s 'Test Message' ltaber@lt.tucson.az.us < mailtest
  

  The file mailtest had the content of:

  This is a test message.
  I am sending it to me.  - Louis
  

  I get this appended to my mail file (/var/spool/mail/ltaber):

  From ltaber Tue Nov  3 08:22:02 1999
  Return-Path: $<$ltaber$>$
  Received: by lt.tucson.az.us
          id m0zaiHS-000a5dC
          (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); 
          Tue, 3 Nov 1999 08:22:02 -0700 (MST)
  Message-Id: <m0zaiHS-000a5dC@lt.tucson.az.us>
  Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1999 08:22:02 -0700 (MST)
  From: ltaber (Louis Taber)
  To: ltaber@lt.tucson.az.us
  Subject: Test Message
  Status: O
  X-Status: 
  
  This is a test message.
  I am sending it to me.  - Louis
  

• Write a perl program that reads your mail spool and produces a report of the of tallying all of the orders in the mail spool file. Ignore any mail that does not have the correct "Subject". The report should have a section for each order processed and a summary section showing the totals for each item ordered and a grand total.

4.8.2 Report

• Louis Taber
• CSC266 Topic: 4.8: Mail.
• Your group letter.
• Your group member's names.

1. A printout of your mail message.
2. A printout of your summary report.