On 23Aug2012 21:20, raj sourabh <rajsourabh1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | I am trying to make a script that does the following: | | * Checks any new mail on my gmail/yahoo account | * If any new messages - invoke a script on local system ( script will | generate a number) | * respond to the mail with this number | | I have tried many things to achieve this did not succeed. If anyone has | done anything of this kind, Please share your ideas. I would be inclined to use IMAP to talk to each mail service (to get at the message list without fetching the message contents). My language of choice would be Python, both because I like it and because it has an IMAP library as standard. There are a whole bunch of issues you need to sort out though: storing passwords (at a minimum, store then in a separate file with private permissions i.e. rw-------) and storing the mailbox state - the list of messages that were present on your last check. A trivial approach might be to dump all the IMAP message ids to a file as plain text, one per line. On the next poll, read that file, reread the IMAP list, count new items and rewrite the file with the current state. Very simple. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> I am perfectly capable of cooking myself. - snail@xxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
