[macca1707]

Hi I have a python script that i need to run every time an e-mail is received from a certain person. I want to check if an e-mail has been received, save the attachment and then run my script. Can anyone point me in the right direction for connecting to Microsoft exhange server and saving attachments

thanks

[Yegg`]

Packet log the Microsoft Exchange Server while in progress, gather enough information, create code with the use of sockets accordingly to connect to the server and send/recv what you require.

[macca1707]

i know how to connect to the server and count the number of messages and get the details of a certain message if its place in the list is known. I dont know how to check for attachments on the mail and save it into a folder. can anyone let me know how i can loop through the list and look search for attachments and save the attachments.

import poplib
a = poplib.POP3('host')
a.user('username')
a.pass_('password')
(numMsgs, totalSize) = a.stat()

[macca1707]

if the attachment is a text file i can search for the filename and add all lines and create a new text file as below. However, does anybody know how i can save the attachment if it is a zip file for example

for thisNum in range(1, numMsgs + 1):
	response, lines, bytes = pop.retr(thisNum)
	FileLines = []
	true = 0
	for x in lines:
		if '''filename="file.txt"''' in x:
			true = 1
		if true == 1:
				FileLines.append(x)
	        if true == 1:
		        output = open('path\\filename.txt', 'a')
		for x in FileLines:
			output.writelines(x + '\n')
		output.close()