Andre Garzia wrote:
so let us talk about solutions. I'll begin with the best one I can
remember which is:
(1) Shao Sean libEmail and libSMTP libraries. Shao Sean created
this two gems that can to lots of cool things. The libEmail will
generate an email enclosure (will not send, but generate the chunk
that is the email) with MIME, Attachments and whatever you want.
libSMTP will take care of sending the email. It works fine!
and can be found at
http://dark.unitz.ca/~shaosean/pages/development.htm
Now the reading email part... err... I never done this, I like
sending mails, not reading them :-) I can think two ways only!
(1) I do think Sarah created a libPOP library that can do POP3
reading. and I think someone on the list actually used this on a spam
filter.
Yes, I did that (on RevOnline under my username alextweedly). Sarah's
library was very helpful - can be found from URL Andre gave (
http://www.troz.net/Rev/index.html)
Again, we have to ask Andre's question - what kind of email do you need
to read, and what do you need to do with it?
Sarah's library is purely a POP3 library - it doesn't cover MIME
decoding (and I didn't need to for my Spam handler, so I didn't write
one either).
(2) Let the client default app fetch the mails, parse the mbox
file. There are two standards for storing emails, mbox and maildir.
Both are easy to parse.
Being careful that many mail apps don't use either of the standards -
e.g. the new Apple mail app, Eudora, Opera, OE, ...
Good luck ....
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