checking emails with ruby

[Erika]

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Hi,

Is there a possibility in ruby or with a ruby extension for checking emails?

I'm thinking something like the following:
- ruby accesses a site and after a button is pressed an email is send to an address
- ruby opens the mail handler (Outlook express / Thunderbird) and waits that the email is downloaded
- opens the email (the email can be identified by it's subject)
- check if some text can be found in the email

Is this possible?

Thank you.

Br,
Erika

 

[gf]

It's possible, depending on the type of email account, and can be done
without relying on an external application. Check into the net/pop3
and net/imap core libraries.

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Net/POP3.html
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Net/IMAP.html

The examples for either are good starting points.

 

[Sarcar, Shourya C (GE Healthcare)]

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Hi,
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Is there a possibility in ruby or with a ruby extension for
checking emails?
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I'm thinking something like the following:
- ruby accesses a site and after a button is pressed an email is
send to an address
- ruby opens the mail handler (Outlook express / Thunderbird)
and waits that the email is downloaded
- opens the email (the email can be identified by it's subject)
- check if some text can be found in the email
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I believe it will be easier if you choose to (and can) avoid
Outlook/Thunder and read the mails via Ruby itself.
Reading mails from a POP/IMAP server is quite easy.
(For POP3)
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/pop/rdoc/index.html

--
Shourya
http://www.shouryalive.com/blog

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