Twitter DM Email Parser Script00:22:15
Aug2
Since I am now my own sysadmin for the various servers I have running, I have forced myself to learn how to setup and administer mailservers on linux boxes. Now that I have that under control, I can also write scripts to parse and interact with incoming/outgoing email. My first such foray into playing with email scripts was to create a Twitter DM parser which strips incoming Direct Message emails from Twitter and re-formats them down to the bare essentials and forwards the resultant information back to my main email address. After that was working, I had the idea to give myself the ability to reply to these emails in order to send a reply DM back to the original sender. This system turns out to be really handy, thus turning Direct Messages into another form of email.
Screenshots and more details follow the jump if you are interested.
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