Checking and receiving email via ruby.
If you need to get emails and check emails via a ruby script this should get you started in the right direction. I needed to copy down about six thousand emails from my pop server, so I wrote up this little script. Ruby makes email simple, you just need to know where to look and unfortunately most searches result in finding a 3rd party library that costs a pretty penny for email actions in ruby. What you really need is the Net::POP3 or the Net::IMAP. After going through the quick documentation and seeing some of the available code examples, writing the code is straightforward. This is just a very simple example, with hardly any error checking.
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require 'net/pop'Net::POP3.start('pop.yourdomain.com', 110,
'userName', 'myPass') do |pop|
if pop.mails.empty?
puts 'No mail.'
else
i = 0
pop.each_mail do |m| # or "pop.mails.each ..."
subject = m.header.split("\r\n").grep(/^Subject: /)[0]
subject = subject.gsub("Subject: ","")
subject = subject.gsub(":","")
subject = subject[0,10] if(subject.length > 10)
File.open("/archive/#{i}-#{subject}.txt", 'w') do |f|
f.write m.pop
end
#if you want to delete msg after archive
#m.delete
i += 1
end
puts "#{pop.mails.size} mails popped."
end
end
