> You have a couple options that occur to me: > > 1) set up an SMTP server somewhere (or use the existing one you're > receiving this email at in the event you're getting it as mail > rather than reading it via NNTP or a web interface) to receive the > mail, then create a Python script to poll that inbox (usually POP3 or > IMAP) for messages addressed. The mails can be extracted, parsed, > and deleted
Why should I setup the SMTP server? If my email is on gmail server, I can read the messages from there from time to time. > 2) similar to above, set up an SMTP server, but use server processing > scripts (e.g. procmail scripts) to launch some script when matching > emails are received. It would save you from polling (reducing server > load) and most scripting frameworks pipe the message in on stdin so > you don't have to muck with POP3/IMAP logins. That would be nice but I don't have an access to the server processing scripts. > 3) write your own STMP daemon that would do listen and react when > appropriate messages come in. For now, I could set some time interval, let's say every five minutes for mail checking. I could parse the mail, but at the moment I am not sure how mail body should look like in order to be sure that I have parsed the information correctly. I agree, #2 is the best approach because you are doing something when the mail arrives. In this case you don't have to pull mail server from time to time. Regards. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
