You can start from http://docs.python.org/library/poplib.html http://docs.python.org/library/imaplib.html
http://docs.python.org/library/email.parser.html Atenciosamente Alexandre Andrade Hipercenter.com Classificados Gratuitos e Inteligentes 2011/1/10 Kenneth Lundström <kenneth.t.lundst...@gmail.com> > A gateway that works the other way. Instead of sending emails from web2py > I悲 like to receive emails. > > I惴 working on a app where you upload PDF:s containing receipts. Those PDF:s > are usually scanned in a photocopier that emails the PDF to your email. Then > you have to login in to my app and upload it. So my idea was to give the > photocopier another email adress which my app reads and extracts the PDF > from it. > > Has anybody made anything like this? Where should I start? I guess it > should be some kind of pop/imap client polling the postbox and reading and > extrating everything from it. > > > Kenneth > > --