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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.

Optimizing Input and Output by 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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