RE: [misterhouse-users] POP mail checker?

[Bruce W. <br...@mi...>]

> Has anyone written a POP mail checker for MH?  The
> internet_mail.pl MH module
> I found only seems to work with Outlook and Outlook Express which I would
> rather not pile on top of what I already have running on my machine.  I'm
> interested in something that can pull mail out of a special
> account I have
> set up (ho...@sh...) that will look for a specific SUBJECT
> line and read
> the body of the message, deleting the mail when done.

Check out the mh/bin/get_email script that gets called by code member
internet_mail.pl.  It creates a .scan file that internet_mail will then
check for mail commands.   'Send test e mail' command in internet_mail will
send test email commands.

You CAN call the same mail related functions that get_mail calls (which uses
the Net::POPe library) directly from mh code , but mh will pause, since
reading mail can take a while.  I thought a better strategy was to have
get_email periodically summarize email to a file, then have mh user cod
query those file.