[PLUG] imap retrieval
Wil Cooley
wcooley at nakedape.cc
Mon Jun 2 12:22:01 UTC 2003
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 12:17, Michael Montagne wrote:
> I need to automate the download of messages from an Exchange Mail folder
> (or two). I tried to use fetchmail but there are numerous incorrect
> headers (these are spam messages) that cause fetchmail to not downlaod
> anything. This is documented on their mailing list as an issue, but
> since messages with this problem are usually spam, they are not
> concerned. So I need to find a way to retrieve the mails and put them
> in a mailbox on a linux machine. I need these so I can run sa-learn on
> them, therefore the headers should be unaltered.
You might try writing your own client in Perl or Python. Both have
modules for speaking IMAP. A couple hours with RFC 2060 and the man
pages and you should be good to go.
Wil
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