Check Email

This task allows you to download email messages from your email server to a  user specified folder.  Only messages within your INBOX folder are searched.  You can specify conditions based on date, sender or subject.  Only messages which match your specified conditions will be downloaded.  Any attachments are also downloaded.  \

Conditions
Condition 1 is required.  Condition 2 is optional.
For date comparison, enter the number of days required.  For example, to download all messages which have been received in the last 3 days, enter  3 in the text box.
For conditions based on subject or sender, you have four choices.  The comparisons are always case sensitive.

and/or
Choose and if both Condition l and Condition 2 should be satisfied.  Choose or if either Condition 1 or Condition 2 can be satisfied.

Email Folder
Please enter a valid folder on your local system.  All emails will be downloaded to this folder.  The format of the email names is the name_x_ , where name is your Check Email task title and x is the message number that has been downloaded.  For example, if your task title is "emailTest" and 3 messages were downloaded, the 3 email files will be emailTest_0_ , emailTest_1_ , and emailTest_2_ .  All attachments will also be downloaded to this folder and will maintain their original names.

Append to filename
You can save downloaded messages and attachments to a different filename based on date or date/time or custom code you set.

Email Server Type
Please consult your email service providers documentation for information on your email server type.  POP3 is currently widely employed.  IMAP is the newer protocol and many email servers will move to IMAP in the future.

Email Server Name
This is the most difficult parameter to get right in this task.  Please consult your network administrator or your internet service providers documentation for information on the POP3 or IMAP or incomming email server name.  The exact name is required and it is case sensitive.  Urls are not allowed.    If you already check email via an email client like netscape, outlook or eudora etc.., please copy this setting from the software itself. 

Email Server Port
The default POP3 email port is usually 110.

Username
The username is case sensitive. No white space at the end.

Password
The password is case sensitive. No white space at the end.