[PLUG] imap retrieval
Michael Montagne
montagne at boora.com
Tue Jun 3 10:01:02 UTC 2003
>On about 02/06/03, Wil Cooley was heard to proclaim:
> 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
That was so easy. Thanks for the tip!!
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