On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > it might be simpler to auto fwd email to a local filesystem and deal with mail files directly! :) > > 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 > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
