Re: How to automate email retrieval

[Jake Morrison <jake_morrison@example.com>]

Sounds like you need fetchmail, which pulls mail from
the ISP via POP and delivers it locally (via sendmail or other
mechanism). You can "deliver" to a program using an
alias (e.g. in /etc/aliases), .forward or something procmail.

fetchmail is probably on your system already, or you can
get it from http://tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/

Another option would be to write a program to do this.
The Python (http://www.python.org/) poplib module makes this stuff
simple to do:

import poplib

host = 'pop.primuscapital.com'
user = 'jake'
pw = 'secret'

M = poplib.POP3(host)
M.user(user)
M.pass_(pw)
numMessages = len(M.list()[1])
print "messages: %d" % (numMessages)

#for i in range(numMessages):
#    for j in M.retr(i+1)[1]:
#        print j

 
Regards,
Jake


--- Jean-Christian Imbeault <jean_christian@example.com> wrote:
> This is my first posting to this list so please excuse me if it's off
> topic 
> or too simple ...
> 
> I'm trying to automate mail retrieval on my Red Hat linux 6.2 machine
> from 
> my ISP's POP server. Could anyone point me to some documentation on
> how to 
> do this?
> 
> Ideally I would like to download all the emails and then send then to
> a 
> script for processing.
> 
> Jc
>
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