> The company I worked for is in the process of being "merged". > Lot's of fun :-( > > In any case one of the results of this is a huge problem for > me in mail retrieval. I use a freeBSD laptop as my primary > machine. I had been using fetchmail to retrieve my email, and > passing the mail on to sendmail on the local machine. > > The new powers that be have decided to turn of the POP2 > server. There suggested alternative is a miserable web based > mail access (Lotus Notes, I think, if it matters). > > Now, I was wondering if someone had cobbled together > something (perl script), to essentially "screen scrape" email > of w web interface? I am hoping to replace the fetchmail part > of my setup with something. > > Suggestions?
If you're able to get a copy of the webmail pages, you may be able to decipher the calls that log you in/present your new mail/etc. Then, just build a perl script to connect to the web server and run the relevant commands and parse the results as you see fit. Lotus Notes also has a stand-alone client. Not sure what protocol it uses, but maybe they have it enabled and you can find something that will interface with it. Like maybe it uses IMAP or something. Lotus is "known" for its abilty to replicate (techies, of course, would use the more accurate term "synch"), so there is probably a way to interface with that... Never know, if you come up w/ something good enough, you could submit it to the ports and help the other poor people that are subjected to Notes use... Brent To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
