Using POP3 to Retrieve Email for Rails App

timmorgan (Tim Morgan) — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:40:30 GMT

Put this in a file called "inbox" in the scripts/ directory of your Rails app. change the host, username, and password to match.

Set up a cron job to run this script every so often (frequency depends on your needs).



#!/usr/bin/env ruby



require 'net/pop'

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../config/environment'



logger = RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER



logger.info "Running Mail Importer..." 

Net::POP3.start("localhost", nil, "username", "password") do |pop|

  if pop.mails.empty?

    logger.info "NO MAIL" 

  else

    pop.mails.each do |email|

      begin

        logger.info "receiving mail..." 

        Notifier.receive(email.pop)

        email.delete

      rescue Exception => e

        logger.error "Error receiving email at " + Time.now.to_s + "::: " + e.message

      end

    end

  end

end

logger.info "Finished Mail Importer."

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Using POP3 to Retrieve Email for Rails App