Email-Fingerprint

Email::Fingerprint provides methods for generating checksums for email messages. Depending on the options chosen, the checksum can include the body only or the body and select RFC822 headers. Scripts can use this module to detect duplicate email messages, even if the messages differ in some headers--for example, if they were relayed through different SMTP servers or sent at different times.

REQUIREMENTS

Installation requires Perl version 5.006 or greater: version 5.005005 has a bug which prevents it from parsing the Makefile.PL correctly.

The architecture must support the UNIX epoch, 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970. If Perl's time() function uses a non-standard epoch, some tests will fail. The module should still work fine, however.

INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Email::Fingerprint

You can also look for information at:

Search CPAN

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Email-Fingerprint

CPAN Request Tracker:

http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Email-Fingerprint

AnnoCPAN, annotated CPAN documentation:

http://annocpan.org/dist/Email-Fingerprint

CPAN Ratings:

http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Email-Fingerprint

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Inspired by, and early versions based on, a script by Russel Nelson available at <http://www.qmail.org/>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.