POP3/IMAP Mailbox Reading?

Automise Discussion
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I'm evaluating Automise and I can't believe I've only just noticed there is no action to read the contents of a mailbox over POP3 or IMAP! How does eveyone else handle this? I can't be the only one that would want to read inboudn email.... TJ

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Hi Tim,

Yes (maybe surprisingly) Automise doesn't have any built in actions to read a POP or IMAP mailbox at the moment. It's on the todo list, but it's not currently a high priority as we have very few requests for this feature.

.t8

ps. You could have a go at writing one yourself using ActionStudio? :)

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Speaking of the todo list, I noticed v1 was released in 2006, v2 in 2007, is there likely to be a v3 in 2008? And if so, can you give us a taste of what might be included in it?

Thanks, TJ

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Automise v3 is planned for 2008.

Major (planned) features (subject to change):
- Powershell script (in IDE and ActionStudio)
- Python script (in IDE and ActionStudio)
- SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol)
- Refreshed IDE

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I don't suppose you can throw in SSH, POP3, an event triggering windows service (trigger script on event log, file system monitor etc.) and a column/row indicator in the script editor can you?

That being said, are you shooting for the 3rd or 4th quarter?

TJ

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We’re using a new tcp/ip library which is going to make new internet based actions better and easier to write. The triggering is something we have considered, but certainly don’t have time for AT3 timeframe (we’re shooting for 3rd Q).

Vincent: column/row indicator in script editor?

.t8

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Sorry for the delay,

The column/row indicator is more for when you experience an error in an event script where it quotes the row/column where the error occurred, but there isn't any indicator in the status bar to give you a clue where your at within the code window, so you end up counting manually to work out where the problem is...

And just to throw in a couple more suggestions for AT3...

  • Image/screen matching for GUI automation (ala Macro Scheduler - http://www.mjtnet.com/blog/2007/02/20/how-to-use-image-recognition/)
  • Handle binary/blob variables (tied in with the image recognition above)
  • FTP File info action (get file size, time last modified, file type (folder,file,link)
  • Be able to use expressions in switch/case, i.e. switch Left(%filename%,1)
  • And of course POP3 or IMAP support.

Thanks, TJ