FW: FW: Retrieving mail from a web based mail service?
Is there any way to retrieve mail from a web based mail service, and feed it to. let's say procmail? Here's the scenario. My companby has recently changed from providing POP2 based mail acces to a web browser based solution. I was using fetchmail to retireve tha mail and pass it on to sendmail on my workstation. Then I could use mutt to read it. I _am_ still able to _send_ mail using sendmail. I was wondering if there was nything like fetchmail for web based access"? Yes, I know how ugly this is :-( -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: FW: Retrieving mail from a web based mail service?
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 13:28, stan wrote: > Is there any way to retrieve mail from a web based mail service, and feed > it to. let's say procmail? > > Here's the scenario. My companby has recently changed from providing POP2 > based mail acces to a web browser based solution. > > I was using fetchmail to retireve tha mail and pass it on to sendmail on my > workstation. Then I could use mutt to read it. I _am_ still able to _send_ > mail using sendmail. > > I was wondering if there was nything like fetchmail for web based access"? > > Yes, I know how ugly this is :-( > > -- > "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve > neither liberty nor safety." > -- Benjamin Franklin Although FetchYahoo is doing effectively that, it does it by loading in and interpretting the Yahoo Mail webpages, and extracting the emails from that. Conceptually, it works, and in practice, it is working, but to be used elsewhere, it must be largely rewritten to deal with the structure of your company's webmail webpages. Not a nice task. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: FW: FW: Retrieving mail from a web based mail service?
> > I was wondering if there was nything like fetchmail for web based > access"? > not any AFAIK. All web mail clients might handle and do handle the client side differently even though they might be using the same IMAP or POP protocols on the server. If it's yahoo or hotmail u migth find something of your interest on freshmeat. It should be possible to write a simple utility to do your job though. U'll have to parse the webmail's inputs to the mail server and then use that to read the mails. Sharninder Singh National Institute Of Management, Calcutta -- 'M.C.S.E - Minesweeper Consultant & Solitaire Expert' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: FW: Retrieving mail from a web based mail service?
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:48:13AM +0530, Sharninder wrote: > > > > I was wondering if there was nything like fetchmail for web based > > access"? > > > > not any AFAIK. All web mail clients might handle and do handle the > client side differently even though they might be using the same > IMAP or POP protocols on the server. If it's yahoo or hotmail u > migth find something of your interest on freshmeat. There's a debian package called gotmail that does this for hotmail, its in stable/testing/unstable. - Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
