15 mins mail fetch
You're looking for a solution to fetch emails from a mailbox and process them within 15 minutes. Here are a few options:
Option 1: IMAP Client
You can use an IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) client like imaplib
in Python or imap
in Node.js to connect to a mailbox and fetch emails. Here's an example in Python:
import imaplib
import email
# Connect to the mailbox
mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com', 993)
mail.login('[email protected]', 'your_password')
mail.select('inbox')
# Fetch emails
status, messages = mail.search(None, 'ALL')
messages = messages[0].split()
# Process each email
for num in messages:
status, msg = mail.fetch(num, '(RFC822)')
raw_message = msg[0][1].decode('utf-8')
message = email.message_from_string(raw_message)
# Process the email content
print(message['Subject'], message['From'])
# Close the connection
mail.close()
mail.logout()
Option 2: Email API
You can use an email API like Mailgun, Sendgrid, or Amazon SES to fetch emails and process them. These APIs provide a simple way to fetch emails and send them to your application for processing.
For example, with Mailgun, you can use the mailgun-ruby
gem to fetch emails:
require 'mailgun'
mg = Mailgun::Client.new('your_domain', 'your_api_key')
# Fetch emails
emails = mg.inbox.all
# Process each email
emails.each do |email|
# Process the email content
puts email.subject, email.from
end
Option 3: Cron Job
You can set up a cron job to run a script that fetches emails and processes them every 15 minutes. This approach requires setting up a scheduler like cron
on your system.
For example, you can use a Python script like this:
import imaplib
import email
# Connect to the mailbox
mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com', 993)
mail.login('[email protected]', 'your_password')
mail.select('inbox')
# Fetch emails
status, messages = mail.search(None, 'ALL')
messages = messages[0].split()
# Process each email
for num in messages:
status, msg = mail.fetch(num, '(RFC822)')
raw_message = msg[0][1].decode('utf-8')
message = email.message_from_string(raw_message)
# Process the email content
print(message['Subject'], message['From'])
# Close the connection
mail.close()
mail.logout()
And then set up a cron job to run this script every 15 minutes:
*/15 * * * * python /path/to/your/script.py
Remember to replace [email protected]
and your_password
with your actual email credentials, and your_domain
and your_api_key
with your actual Mailgun domain and API key.