I need to check a POP mailbox every few minutes, retrieve email, save attachments to a certain folder, and then kick off an HTTP script, passing it the filename of the attachment.

Only EmailRetrieval function I see is in Triggers. So I set up a trigger to poll the mailbox, save attachments, and then as a Task, I run the HTTP script.

1) Is the the only way to do it?
2) I cannot get it to pick up the emails - I believe I have all the serverIP, mailbox, un, pw, port set correctly.


Thanks for any help,

Joe

Hi,

1. yes, using the Trigger is the way to do it.
2. test first if you can telnet to that mail server on port 110 which is used for pop communication (unless it is a secure one)

from command window: telnet host 110

If the screen becomes blank then you are connected. The problem is then the username/password combination.

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No luck so far.

Now I'm trying to pick up email from an Exchange mailbox as an IMAP connection. I'm using a mailbox for which there are other external applications successfully accessing as IMAP, so I know it works.

Under Connections, "Server Name" is just a description. Please tell me where I specify the actual mailbox address, and where I specify the mail server.


Thanks,

Joe

I'm back to trying a simple POP mailbox. I can login to it using mail2web.com using just the email address and the password, so I know its a simple POP setup. Yet, I am getting errors in VC. See attached

It seems like the service you use mail2web.com is not the service you should connect VisualCron to. VisualCron is used for connecting directly to the POP provide. mail2web acts like some kind of middle man capturing the POP messages that you have set there. So, what you should do is to use the POP settings you have specified in mail2web and go directly against that server instead of trying to connect to mail2web which does not have any POP server but just a web interface.

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