POP3/IMAP4 Account
To download emails from a POP3/IMAP4 server, first of all, specify the account details here. Please input your server, user, and password. After you set the account details, please click "Test Account" to test it, if it returns "Test is ok", then you can continue to setup the "Mail Process".
Mail Process
Download interval (Download emails from above account every 15 minutes): By default, this value is 15 minutes, you can set it to 1 to 1440 minutes, setting the interval to a small value is not recommended.
Leave a copy of message on mail server: If this option is checked, EAGetMail Service won't delete the email from the mail account after the email was retrieved. EAGetMail creates a "uidl.txt" file in the download local folder to store the retrieved email information to prevent download the same email again and again. If you delete the "uidl.txt" file manually, all of your emails in your mail account will be retrieved again. Notice: if you have this option checked, you should delete emails from your mail account manually, because EAGetMail Service won't delete the email in your account.
Save emails to folder: You should input a valid/existed folder full path here to store the emails retrieved by EAGetMail Service. EAGetMail Service saves email as eml file to this folder, the file name format is YYYYMMDDHHmmss[index].eml. Notice: DO NOT use a common folder for multiple email accounts, but use a dedicated local folder for each mail account. For example: set "c:\program files\eagetmailservice\pull\test" for test account and "c:\program files\eagetmailservice\pull\test1" for test1 account.
Start application after the download is finised.(Optional):You can specify a DOS command or executable file here. Every time when EAGetMail Service checks email from email account, the command/executable application will be invoked by EAGetMail Service. For example: you developed a mail parser application named "parser.exe", if you want to download emails from above account in schedule and parse the downloaded emails, you can input fullpath\parser.exe here, then your application will be invoked every time EAGetMail Service checks email from POP3/IMAP4 account. Your application doesn't have to check/retrieve emails directly from email account, instead it processes the *.eml files stored in the local folder.
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