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Re: Automating Receive Emails
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Re: Automating Receive Emails


  • Subject: Re: Automating Receive Emails
  • From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:45:15 -0700

At 08:09 +0000 1/11/13, Simon Topliss wrote:
>On 10 Jan 2013, at 20:03, Simon Topliss <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to automate received emails without using Apple's Mail?
>>
>> Is this something that can be automated without a GUI client?
>>
>> Ideally, I just want to invoke a script for emails sent to a specific address.
>>
>> I've tried using rules in Mail but it just completely locks the UI when processing messages with large attachments.
>
>Just to clarify, I'm looking for a scripted solution to automatically check for new emails on an imap server, download any that are there and then process the attachments. Similar to how a Mail Rule works but I need it faster and more reliable.
>
>Alpine or Mutt are possibilities. And there's always Telnet.
>

Have a look at the mail packages on CPAN for perl 5.  I know you can do it nicely with POP3. IMAP ks almost sure to be there too.  It's pretty much just opening a socket and then executing IMAP commands which are pretty well documented on a Wiki and in the IETF RFC's

I would like to know if such a thing is possible on Apple's cloud though. Is it really using IMAP or is it simulating the whole thing with special call sequences in Apple Mail?

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