Doccument or sample code to read email from progress 4gl in unix.

[rajendran]

could someone point me some documnets for reading email through progress.I see lot of information for sending email but not for reading email through progress in unix.

 

[TomBascom]

What OS platform? What version of Progress? What sorts of emails? What have you tried so far?

 

[JamesBowen]

I use sendmail service to call a shell script each time there is an inbound email for a particular email address. In the shell script I use an additional command line tool called ripmime. Ripmime extract the attachments to files and the message body to html/ascii files.

Once I have a directory of files I then call a progress .p program to process the files.

Ref:
http://www.pldaniels.com/ripmime/

 

[TomBascom]

So the email part is actually under control and you really just need to know how to read a file?

You failed to mention what version of Progress you are using but unless it is an incredibly ancient, obsolete and unsupported release COPY-LOB is your friend whenever you need to read a file.

 

[TomBascom]

Oops, Cecil replied, not the OP.