From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 25 11:22: 8 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ECBF37B401 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:22:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from bjwcs.com (swing.bjwcs.com [208.185.25.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2811C43F85 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:22:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brently@bjwcs.com) Received: from samba [68.98.15.6] by bjwcs.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.07) id AC4632600EC; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 14:21:42 -0500 From: "Brent Wiese" To: "'stan'" , "'Free BSD Questions list'" Subject: RE: FW: Retrieving web based mail? Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:21:42 -0700 Message-ID: <00f501c2f303$c51849f0$0a0114ac@home.bjwcs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20030325182930.GB712@teddy.fas.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.5 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The company I worked for is in the process of being "merged".=20 > Lot's of fun :-( >=20 > In any case one of the results of this is a huge problem for=20 > me in mail retrieval. I use a freeBSD laptop as my primary=20 > machine. I had been using fetchmail to retrieve my email, and=20 > passing the mail on to sendmail on the local machine.=20 >=20 > The new powers that be have decided to turn of the POP2=20 > server. There suggested alternative is a miserable web based=20 > mail access (Lotus Notes, I think, if it matters).=20 >=20 > Now, I was wondering if someone had cobbled together=20 > something (perl script), to essentially "screen scrape" email=20 > of w web interface? I am hoping to replace the fetchmail part=20 > of my setup with something. >=20 > Suggestions? If you're able to get a copy of the webmail pages, you may be able to decipher the calls that log you in/present your new mail/etc. Then, just build a perl script to connect to the web server and run the relevant commands and parse the results as you see fit. Lotus Notes also has a stand-alone client. Not sure what protocol it = uses, but maybe they have it enabled and you can find something that will interface with it. Like maybe it uses IMAP or something. Lotus is = "known" for its abilty to replicate (techies, of course, would use the more = accurate term "synch"), so there is probably a way to interface with that... Never know, if you come up w/ something good enough, you could submit it = to the ports and help the other poor people that are subjected to Notes = use... Brent To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message