[ILUG] IMAP & Perl

[Colm MacCárthaigh]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 05:06:41PM +0000, John Hegarty wrote:
> I have a perl script that needs to send mail . But becuase of a firewall i
> can only access an imap server which requires a username/password. Can
> this be done?

Some IMAP servers allow you to send mail upon it being copied into an
OUTGOING or OUTBOX mail folder, but it isnt exactly standard, IMAP
is much mroe commonly used for reading mail :)

If the IMAP server you are using supports mail being sent, then
there are plenty of perl modules to help out.

tara:/etc/ldap# perl -MCPAN -eshell

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.61)
ReadLine support enabled.

cpan> i /IMAP/
Going to read /usr/local/cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
Going to read /usr/local/cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz

  Database was generated on Mon, 22 Jul 2002 07:52:00 GMT
Going to read /usr/local/cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Distribution    D/DJ/DJKERNEN/Mail-IMAPClient-2.1.4.tar.gz
Distribution    E/EE/EESTABROO/IMAP-Admin-1.6.1.tar.gz
Distribution    F/FA/FABPOT/Unicode-IMAPUtf7-1.04.tar.gz
Distribution    J/JP/JPAF/Net-IMAP-Simple-0.93.tar.gz
Distribution    M/MI/MICB/AuthenIMAP.pm.gz
Distribution    U/UG/UGEN/IMAPGet-0.1.tar.gz
Module          Apache::AuthenIMAP (M/MI/MICB/AuthenIMAP.pm.gz)
Module          IMAP::Admin     (E/EE/EESTABROO/IMAP-Admin-1.6.1.tar.gz)
Module          IMAPGet         (U/UG/UGEN/IMAPGet-0.1.tar.gz)
Module          Mail::IMAPClient (D/DJ/DJKERNEN/Mail-IMAPClient-2.1.4.tar.gz)
Module          Mail::IMAPClient::BodyStructure (D/DJ/DJKERNEN/Mail-IMAPClient-2.1.4.tar.gz)
Module          Mail::IMAPClient::Parse (D/DJ/DJKERNEN/Mail-IMAPClient-2.1.4.tar.gz)
Module          Net::IMAP       (K/KJ/KJOHNSON/NetxAP-0.02.tar.gz)
Module          Net::IMAP::Simple (J/JP/JPAF/Net-IMAP-Simple-0.93.tar.gz)
Module          PDF::API2::UniMap (A/AR/AREIBENS/PDF-API2-0.2.3.7_dev.tar.gz)
Module          Unicode::IMAPUtf7 (F/FA/FABPOT/Unicode-IMAPUtf7-1.04.tar.gz)
16 items found


Any one of them could be worth a try :)

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