Hi,

Can anyone help me with reading email from an Exchange server? I need to scan my inbox for mail from a certain user and then download any attachements in that email to my machine.

I know there are already a few posts out there on how to do this, but I can't get any of them (ie. those using MAPI or LDAP) to work.

Can you use Net::POP3 or Net::SMTP to do this? I've managed to send email using Net::SMTP with the following...
use Net::SMTP;

unless ($smtp = Net::SMTP->new('mailhost')) {
   print "Fail\n";
}

# print domain
print $smtp->domain,"\n";

# send test email
$smtp->mail($ENV{USER});
$smtp->to('phil@philvickery.com');
$smtp->data();
$smtp->datasend('To: phil@philvickery.com\n');
$smtp->datasend("\n");
$smtp->datasend("A simple test message\n");
$smtp->dataend();

$smtp->quit;

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...but can't work out how to read emails.

thanks,
A

In reply to Reading email on Exchange by qadwjoh

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