yahoo2mbox.pl error: Unexpected title page format

The problem
c:\emails\yahoo2mbox-0.24>perl yahoo2mbox.pl –user=pooja13pandey –pass=<password>
1 –delay=5 desimasala
Logging in as pooja13pandey… ok.
Getting number of messages in group desimasala…
Unexpected title page format (DesiMasala).
The solution
This simply means that the user with which we are trying to archive the yahoo group’s messages locally, is not part of the yahoo group yet. So now I make pooja13pandey user a part [...]

quick script to extract email ids from a detailed mail header

Since my creative juices are flowing so much today, I thought of posting the simple, yet effective awk script to extract sender’s email ids from a detailed mail message (even though if the mail id be ecrypted).
A word of caution is that the file being processed should have a line with “EOF” value (without strings) [...]

How to uninstall a CPAN module ?

CPAN module does not have the option of un-installing a perl module as of now. This can be especially frustrating for newbies (as it was for me). I struggled quite a bit on google and found this solution. For this, you need the CPANPLUS module, which needs to be first installed through CPAN.
C:\Users\Pooja Verma>perl -MCPAN [...]

How to scrape emails for online marketing? — for free

Prologue – Is harmless marketing always Spam?

Ok, so I had started a website and wanted to promote it. At some point, you might be in the same boat too.
Unfortunately, I did not have a while lot of contacts for sending emails to. Well, the website was not really spammy (it was actually a community related [...]

Quick script for extracting emails from unformatted text

Often, we face a need of extracting emails from some un-formatted text like or html tags etc. For this, the following script can come handy for extracting emails into simple text file, which can be uploaded to mailman or other mailing software contact lists:
$ more xtract_emails.sh
#/bin/ksh
sed -e ’s/\,/\n/g’ -e ’s/ /\n/g’ $1 | [...]

Failed opening required ‘wp-blog-header.php’ while using cformsII wordpress plugin

Problem
All right, so I was trying to insert a cforms II contact form in WordPress 2.7.0 Installation and was facing this error in a pop-up dialog box:
Warning: require_once(wp-blog-header.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/wisdom/public_html/prashna/wp-content/plugins/cforms/js/insertdialog25.php on line 9
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘wp-blog-header.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/wisdom/public_html/prashna/wp-content/plugins/cforms/js/insertdialog25.php on line [...]