Sanjay -- please direct all replies to the list, not me directly.
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Sanjay Arora wrote:
On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 17:14, Chris Devers wrote:On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Sanjay Arora wrote:
BTW, its not SMTP mail I want, its webmail of the particular web-sites. If you have any seperate pointers for this, please let me know.
Nothing comes to mind, sorry. If it's (say) hotmail or yahoo that you want, there may be code out there, but I don't know where. Also, anything that gets information this way is a "screen scraper", which is to say that the next time the webmail provider changes their interface, any software that tries to work with their site is probably going to break. If it's possible to get at the same mail some other way -- via POP or IMAP -- that's almost definitely going to be more reliable.
If you know of any pieces of code, you mentioned as being scattered on the net, please let me know, if its not too much of any effort.
Sorry, I don't have any at hand. Like I say, this sort of thing is done often, but everyone writing such a system has different requirements so the particulars become significant.
I suspect that you'll be much better off by breaking your project down into simpler components -- store & retrieve information from the database, get & post information to & from web sites, etc -- and then once you have these working, try to get them going in tandem.
This will, almost as a side effect, get you writing nice, reusable, modular, easy to maintain code.
Let the list know if you have more specific questions. :)
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