I need a script or program that can interface with a email client,
like Eudora or Outlook. What I need to do is have the email subject
and body passed to this 'script or program'. Then it needs to just
write those two data items into a file, assigning it a unique file
name.

That is, when email is sent to a certain email address, this computer
running Eudora, for instance, will poll for the email and when email
is received, have this script or program "process the email" parsing
out the subject and body, and writing them into a (new) file.

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Clarification of Question by kw1803-ga on 25 Apr 2004 13:47 PDT

The comment presents an alternative to my original question. And it is
probably right on. Either way, I'm looking for a program to achieve
the task. It can either poll the client email program (OE, Eudora,
...) or poll the smtp server directly for email addressed to a
specific email-alias. It has to be able to run on windows or unix. It
could be run every so minute or so, but would prefer to have it
launched when the email arrives.

The process is to format into such a way as to pass it to another
program, which I already have, that will send it out to a pager or
cell phone.

Shareware, freeware, or someone out there that wants to write it for
me, for a fee. Either way, I need it.

Hi kw1803!

If you were to create a program to interact with an e-mail client, the
approach needed would depend very much upon what e-mail client is in question.
One can use DDE for example. However I feel that there are much better ways
of creating the functionality you want. If I am understanding you correctly,
you wish to write info from a received mail to an external text file
or database. I think a better approach to this problem, is to create
an application
that communicates with the e-mail pop3 server instead, checking with intervals
if new mail has arrived. You set your e-mail client (eudora, OE, or any other
client), to leave a copy of the messages on a server for a suiting
period of time. By doing so your application would have the ability to
process all received files. An even better approach, if you have the
resources, would be to make a small perl script that runs in crontab
under linux, that periodically processes all mail from one account,
and then forwards them to an e-mail account that the client is set to
check.

If you give me some further details on your problem, it would be easier
for me to provide a possible solution.

Best regards,
Trym

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