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Re^3: is it possible to use Perl to process Outlook emails?

by cjb (Friar)
on Jul 26, 2011 at 14:08 UTC ( [id://916778]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: is it possible to use Perl to process Outlook emails?
in thread is it possible to use Perl to process Outlook emails?

Your exchnage sever may have POP3 mail box access set up. If it has it's fairly easy to get Mail::POP3Client to grab the mail. I've had to do this recently:
#!c:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe use Modern::Perl; use Mail::POP3Client; use MIME::QuotedPrint; my $pop_user = 'XXXXXXXXXX'; my $pop_pass = 'XXXXXXXXXX'; my $pop_host = 'exchange3'; #connect to POP3 sever my $pop = new Mail::POP3Client ( HOST => $pop_host ); $pop->User($pop_user); $pop->Pass($pop_pass); $pop->Connect() or die "Unable to connect to POP3 server: ".$pop->Message()."\n"; #count number of items in POP3 mailbox my $mailcount = $pop->Count(); for (my $i = 1; $i <= $mailcount ; $i++) { my $header = $pop->Head($i); #gets the header my $uni = $pop->Uidl($i); # gets the unquie id my $body = $pop->Body($i); $body = decode_qp($body); #decode quoted printable body say "$uni"; say "$header\n"; say "$body"; }
Edit 27/07/2011@10:33BST Removed reference to subroutine not include in code &return_error and replaced with die

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Re^4: is it possible to use Perl to process Outlook emails?
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 07, 2014 at 16:30 UTC
    I tried to run this routine. The error message was: "unable to connect to POP3 server: couldn't connect socket exchange3, 110; Invalid argument." Any advise will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
      So you don't have a server named "exchange" ... what is the name of your server?

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