#!/usr/bin/rebol REBOL [ Title: "emailbot" File: %emailbot.r Author: caffo Date: 17-Oct-2003 Purpose: { A small prototype of a email robot. The program check a POP3 account for emails with a special subject, and reply with the result of the requested task. } Note: { Put that on your crontab to ensure the daemon work. } Category: [email net 1] library: [ level: 'beginner platform: 'all type: 'how-to domain: [web email other-net] tested-under: 'linux / windoze support: none license: none see-also: none ] ] page: read http://neoplastique.com/caffo/fortunes.pl ;; get the fortune from web inbox: open pop://username:password@mail.server.com ;; open the mailbox forall inbox [ mail: import-email first inbox ;; check the mail subject for the specified command, and send the fortune if find mail/subject "send fortune" [ send first mail/from join "the fortune teller says..." [ newline page newline ] print join "sending the fortune to: " mail/from remove inbox ] ;; if the command is 'send about', send a bunch of useless information if find mail/subject "send about" [ send first mail/from join "about akasha daemon services" [ newline "Merry meet!" newline newline "Akasha is a mailbot daemon coded using a miraculous language called REBOL." newline ] print join "sending info to: " mail/from remove inbox ] ]