Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:21:42 -0700 From: "Brent Wiese" <brently@bjwcs.com> To: "'stan'" <stanb@awod.com>, "'Free BSD Questions list'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FW: Retrieving web based mail? Message-ID: <00f501c2f303$c51849f0$0a0114ac@home.bjwcs.com> In-Reply-To: <20030325182930.GB712@teddy.fas.com>
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> 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
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