On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 09:48:02AM -0400, Phil Howard wrote: > Yes, that is what I want to be testing. So I need a way to send mail > via SMTP (including TLS and login authentication) as well as picking it > up via IMAP. But I chose to only ask for the IMAP piece of it here > (and the SMTP piece of it on the Postfix mailing list ... to which > Wietse suggested "expect" and "openssl s_client" which I think I can > handle using "pexpect" in Python). I know enough SMTP to do that end > of things. I don't know the IMAP protocol at all, so something already > built would help.
If you can do SMTP, you can do IMAP. This should get you started: a login f...@bar.com xyzzy a select inbox -- or "a examine inbox" for read-only a fetch 1:15 (rfc822) a store 1:15 +flags (\Deleted) a expunge a logout Also useful: a namespace -- folder separator chars a list "" "*" -- list folder hierarchy Flick through RFC3501 for anything else you need. > An IMAP library might be doable (though not in Perl since I don't know > that language and don't have the time to learn it), but the basic "just > pick up and delete all mail" would be sufficient. As suggested by someone else, you can use 'fetchmail' to do that. Normally it delivers using SMTP, but with appropriate flags I believe it can pipe all the retrieved mail to stdout. And if these are all separate mailboxes, POP3 will do for your purposes anyway. Regards, Brian.
