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This component is in development - it is not production ready. Please contact us if you are interested in setting this up in your IguanaX environment. Need some help setting it up? Contact us:

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It all begins here. This component will connect via the IMAP protocol (seeIMAP Concepts for a brief overview), and in sequence download emails from your email account and queue the messages as it does so.

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titleLink up a downstream component

See Linking components. The component is downloading emails and putting them into the queue for the component.

See How to push messages into a queue?

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titleClick START! Now you have a stream of emails being fed into your queue

The fun begins now! There is so much that you can do with access to email in a convenient environment like Iguana.

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titleWe can configure where the feed is starting from using the NextMailId field

If you look carefully you’ll notice that this field increments as the component is running:

The feeder makes use of the COUNT Library which makes it easy run the component for a short batch of emails and schedule another run. This is a very common technique for building Feeder interfaces.

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titleWhat concepts are used to build this adapter?

The IMAP Library is used to interact with the email server using a pure Lua implementation of the IMAP protocol. We use Meta tables to make this little IMAP adapter with methods.

Reading and writing in larger chunks of data is much faster Optimizing I/O by Reading & Writing in Large Chunks is important in understanding performance - how to make the IMAP feed process faster.

Pretty cool! I coded the whole thing from scratch in Lua together with the Email Filter in some spare time this week. It’s implemented purely in Lua. There are no limits of what you can do with IguanaX. Are you ready to take control of your data?

I need help on this adapter