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Mailbox Connector

Overview

This Connector provides access to internet mailboxes (pop or imap). The Connector can be used in Iterator, Lookup and Delete modes. The Connector uses predefined attribute names for the most used headers. For those who need more than this use the mail.message property to retrieve the native message object.

When the connnector is used in Lookup/Delete mode the only searchable headers are:

  • mail.from
  • mail.to
  • mail.cc
  • mail.subject
  • mail.messageid
  • mail.messagenumber

Configuration

Parameter

Description

class com.architech.connector.Mailbox
mailServer The mail server hosting the mailbox
mailUser The user name
mailPassword The password for mailUser
mailFolder The mail folder to monitor. For POP3 this can only be INBOX. For IMAP4 servers this can be any folder available on the server.
mailProtocol Specify pop3 or imap.

Predefined Properties/Attributes

The Connector uses the following predefined attributes and properties:

Attribute Description
mail.from The From header
mail.to The TO recipient headers
mail.cc The CC recipient headers
mail.subject The subject header
mail.messageid The message-id header
mail.messagenumber The message's internal number
mail.sent The date the message was sent
mail.received The date the message was received
mail.body In case of a single part message this attribute will contain the message body
mail.bodyparts

In case of a multipart message this attribute will contain a javax.mail.Part object.

 

Property Description
mail.message This is the javax.mail.Message representing the message returned in the entry.

 Downloads

Included in base product since 4.5

See Also

Mailbox EventHandler

 

 

 

 

 

 

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