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niklas
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Hi,
Im from Sweden and im not that good in english but I will do my best ;)
I want to check for new emails and upload the attached file to my web server from a specific sender.
First of all I need to check for new e-mails from this specific sender and then check if a file is attached. If the file is attached I want to get access to the file and then upload it to my web server - automaticly.
Can you help me?
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Igor
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This can be achieved in multiple ways. We suggest to perform the task in 4 steps:
1. Logging on IMAP account.
2. Checking for new mails from specified sender.
3. Analyzing attachments.
4. Logging off.
Let's take a closer look at this step-by-step from MailBee Objects perspective.
1. Logging on IMAP account
Detailed information and example on this is available here. For now, let's assume we need to access IMAP account using regular port 143 and supply account credentials:
Code:
Set Mailer = CreateObject("MailBee.IMAP4")
Mailer.LicenseKey = "put your license key here"
Mailer.Connect("mailserver.com", 143, "MyName", "MyPassword") |
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2. Checking for new mails from specified sender
This is done using Search method with UNSEEN and FROM <string> keys combined, e.g.:
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| SearchResults = Mailer.Search(True, "UNSEEN FROM johndoe@mailserver.com") |
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3. Analyzing attachments
Once you have message UIDs, you can download those messages:
Code:
If Not IsEmpty(SearchResults) Then
For I = LBound(SearchResults) To UBound(SearchResults)
Set Message = Mailer.RetrieveSingleMessage(SearchResults(I), True)
If Not Message Is Nothing Then
...
End If
Next
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You can save message attachments to disk using the example on this documentation page.
4. Logging off
The simplest part:
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Igor, AfterLogic Support
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niklas
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Hi Igor,
thanks for your help.
I manage to do exactly the same as you but I dont have the licence for POP3, only IMAP4. Look at the title of my post. So I cant save and download attachments the way you prefer.
"Object required..."
How can we go on from now?
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Igor
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You don't need one. I assume you're referring to SaveFile example, but in our case messages are downloaded from IMAP server using RetrieveSingleMessage, then they should be saved using SaveFile method. This method works with Message object, and it doesn't matter if the message was downloaded via IMAP or POP3.
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niklas
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Igor,
Thanks for all help, it works fine now.
I have some other questions aswell.
How can I see mails from a specific sender and a specific subjecttitle? With your example we just see mail from a specific sender.
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Andrew
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Please refer to IMAP4.Search method description. You can find the following condition there:
SUBJECT <string> - messages that contain specified string in "Subject:"
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Andrew
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niklas
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It worked! Thanks for your help!
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niklas
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I have two more questions.
If I have a subject like this:
Report View of 08. Group Sales Report - UK
How can I make it work with this? Just a single word was okej, but not this.
Second,
If I want to check for more unseen messages, from several other senders with diffrent subjects.
How do I do that?
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Igor
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If I have a subject like this:
Report View of 08. Group Sales Report - UK
How can I make it work with this? Just a single word was okej, but not this. |
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Make sure you place the Subject text in "quotes".
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| If I want to check for more unseen messages, from several other senders with diffrent subjects. |
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It is possible to combine multiple search patterns in one Search method call using OR key in form of OR Condition1 Condition2 ; you can also group patterns via "AND" condition by separating them with spaces. Brackets ( ) can be used as well. For details on Search syntax, check RFC3501, you can use any search technique available there.
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niklas
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Hi Igor,
I canīt get multiple search function to work.
This is the code I have and I have been trying with all kinds of code and nothing works.
SearchResults = Mailer.Search(True, "UNSEEN FROM niklas@somemail.com SUBJECT ""Testing with a subject"" OR UNSEEN FROM niklas@somemail.com SUBJECT ""Testing with another subject""")
What can I do to make this function to work?
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Igor
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According to IMAP Search documentation page, OR keyword should preceed the 1st search pattern, i.e. it's OR pattern1 pattern2, not pattern1 OR pattern2. Please note that you can use parentheses to group multiple search criteria.
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Igor
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You can test your search patterns on IMAP server directly via telnet:
Code:
telnet yourserver 143
01 login YOUR_USERNAME YOUR_PASSWORD
01 select "Inbox"
01 uid search YOUR_SEARCH_CONDITION
01 logout |
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niklas
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Hi Igor,
It worked, but just with two patterns. How will I go on from now?
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Igor
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Like I said previously,
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Thus, if you need 4 search patterns to be used via OR construction, this would look like:
OR condition1 (OR condition2 (OR condition3 condition4))
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niklas
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Hi Igor,
thanks for all your help. You must be tired of me ;)
It still doesnt work. Please check my code:
SearchResults = Mailer.Search(True, "OR UNSEEN FROM niklas@somemail.com SUBJECT ""01. Report"" (OR UNSEEN FROM niklas@somemail.com SUBJECT ""02. Report"" (OR UNSEEN FROM niklas@somemail.com SUBJECT ""03. Report""))")
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Andrew
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If we understood you correctly, you need to find all new messages from niklas@somemail.com with subjects "01. Report", "02. Report", "03. Report".
In this case, the search condition should look like:
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| UNSEEN FROM "niklas@somemail.com" OR SUBJECT "01. Report" (OR SUBJECT "02. Report" SUBJECT "03. Report") |
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Does it work? If doesn't, please try each condition separately:
- UNSEEN
- FROM "niklas@somemail.com"
- SUBJECT "01. Report"
- SUBJECT "02. Report"
- SUBJECT "03. Report"
If each of all the conditions return at least one result, try their simple combinations, like:
- UNSEEN FROM "niklas@somemail.com"
- UNSEEN SUBJECT "01. Report"
- FROM "niklas@somemail.com" SUBJECT "01. Report"
Please let us know the outcome.
Best regards,
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niklas
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Hi Andrew,
I have now test all your code but nothing works. I only get the first subject to work. I have tried all different ways with OR and parentheses to group but nothing works.
I need to have this fixed before the end of the week.
Please let me know if you got some other tips.
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niklas
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This code works, but nothing else.
SearchResults = Mailer.Search(True, "OR UNSEEN FROM ""niklas@somemail.com"" SUBJECT ""01. Test""")
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niklas
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Ooops, remove "OR" then it works, but just with one.
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Andrew
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Please provide us with a test account on your IMAP server with some test messages and specify exact search condition and point to messages which should be found.
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Andrew
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niklas
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Hi Andrew,
I cant give you any access to our IMAP server due the high security. Sorry for that!
Havent you had these questions before? Dont you make any tests before sendning me the code? Im not the one who sould be testing how things works. Im the customer and I pay for your license and if I cant get things to work as you recommend in your support documentation, what shall I do?
I just want you to help me, but I cant give you any access to our IMAP server.
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Actually, I had tested what I suggested to you. I tried those search queries on our local IMAP server. However, some IMAP servers may have different behavior and what works on one IMAP server may not work on another one. Another reason is that IMAP servers don't parse MIME sources for search, they search in raw MIME sources and it's possible that you see a text, then try to search for it, but get no results because that text a bit differs from its MIME representation. So, if we get a test account, we'd be able to investigate what's wrong and find a workaround.
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niklas
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Ok,
but we cant get you any access to our IMAP server, thats one thing for sure. Im not the one whos in charge. What can we do instead?
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In that case, we recommend you the following.
Try the following 3 simple conditions:
- SUBJECT "01. Report"
- SUBJECT "02. Report"
- SUBJECT "03. Report"
It's important to check all three cases to make sure there's at least one result in each case.
If you have at least one result in each case, try the following condition:
- OR SUBJECT "01. Report" SUBJECT "02. Report"
You should get at least 2 results.
If you got 2 results, try the following:
OR SUBJECT "01. Report" (OR SUBJECT "02. Report" SUBJECT "03. Report")
If you got at least three results, just add all other necessary conditions. This condition doesn't give you at least three results, try it without brackets.
We'd recommend you to try that in telnet directly:
Code:
telnet yourserver 143
01 login YOUR_USERNAME YOUR_PASSWORD
01 select "Inbox"
01 uid search SUBJECT "01. Report"
01 uid search SUBJECT "02. Report"
01 uid search SUBJECT "03. Report"
01 uid search OR SUBJECT "01. Report" SUBJECT "02. Report"
01 uid search OR SUBJECT "01. Report" (OR SUBJECT "02. Report" SUBJECT "03. Report")
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If something is wrong, please provide us with entire log of your IMAP session. In my case, it looks as follows:
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* OK CommuniGate Pro IMAP Server 4.0.5 at u-server.dom2.local ready
01 login test test
01 OK completed
01 select "Inbox"
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)] limited
* 22 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 302733082] UIDs valid
01 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed
01 uid search SUBJECT "field"
* SEARCH 101
01 OK completed
01 uid search SUBJECT "test"
* SEARCH 84 85 86 94 95 96
01 OK completed
01 uid search SUBJECT "newsletter"
* SEARCH 88 89 90 91 92
01 OK completed
01 uid search OR SUBJECT "field" SUBJECT "test"
* SEARCH 84 85 86 94 95 96 101
01 OK completed
01 uid search OR SUBJECT "field" (OR SUBJECT "test" SUBJECT "newsletter")
* SEARCH 84 85 86 88 89 90 91 92 94 95 96 101
01 OK completed
01 logout
* BYE CommuniGate Pro IMAP closing connection
01 OK completed |
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Andrew
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