From: "Sarcar, Shourya C (GE Healthcare)" <shourya.sarcar@...>
Date: 2008-11-04T17:09:42+09:00
Subject: Re: checking emails with ruby

 


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	From: Erika [mailto:geagneske83@yahoo.com] 
	Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 1:20 PM
	To: ruby-talk ML
	Subject: checking emails with ruby
	
	
			 		
		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
	


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

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