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This component is in development - 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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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.

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