Nearly all e-mail clients can be set up to periodically login to the
POP server and get mail. The problem is what happens to the
messages after that. The MS products keep the mail in encrypted
files, where it is impossible to get via another program. Eudora
and Netscape will get the mail, but they put all the downloaded
messages into the same file (INBOX in the case of netscape, IN.MBX
for Eudora). If you need each incoming item to handled separately,
then whatever program is reading that file has to separate the
individual messages.
I can create a small app that will do what you need, and place each
incoming message into a unique file, in a directory of your
specification. The drawback is that a small DLL needs o be in the
same folder as the program I write (it doesn't need to be in
\winnt\system32). If you're interested, contact me off list.
Rodney Armstrong wrote:
>
> I will then have a POP client running on a third NT server
> running a custom application retrieve the mail message from the
> IMail POP server and place it into a directory on the NT box to
> be parsed by the custom application into a transcripts database.
> Hence, I'm looking for a POP client that is as unobtrusive on the
> NT box as possible (i.e. no DLL's in the system32 directory as
> the custom app is very temperamental about such things). The only
> requirements for the POP client are that it be able to
> automatically log into the IMail box at predefined intervals
> (say every 5 minutes or so) and retrieve any mail sitting there.
> All this unattended and automatic. There are a lot of different
> POP clients out there so any suggestions as to one that fits
> this need would save me some time in installing, blowing up
> the custom app, reloading, installing, reloading,
> etc..
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