From: Daniel Finnie <danfinnie@...>
Date: 2006-12-11T10:18:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question about pop3 access

This is mostly pure speculation based on prior knowledge that hasn't 
been tested.  But, try this:

    require 'net/pop'

     Net::POP3.start('pop.example.com', 110,
                     'YourAccount', 'YourPassword') do |pop|
       if pop.mails.empty?
         puts 'No mail.'
       else
         i = 0
         pop.each_mail do |m|   # or "pop.mails.each ..."	  			  /^From: 
(.*?)$/.match(m.pop) # <---
		puts $1
         end
         puts "#{pop.mails.size} mails popped."
       end
     end

Everything that isn't by the # <--- is taken from the net/pop docs.

dan

furby wrote:
> I am rather new to Ruby and I want to write a program to play around
> with email. I can connect to my chosen pop3 server and iterate through
> the mail relatively easily. But my question is how to I parse out the
> mail? How do I access the From, Subject, and body? Are there any easy
> way's to do this in Ruby without adding lots of new programming
> libraries (I found a couple that would make this really easy, but I
> don't want to drain my bank account by spending money on them), but I
> can't figure out how to do this in straight Ruby...
> 
> Do I have to parse out the entire message, or are there easy commands
> in the normal net/pop3 library?
> 
> 
>