[solved] Receiving mails

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Hi!

I would like to write an email game in Rust and wondered if there is any crate which has a nice API for receiving emails. I have only found lettre on the web, but I think it is only possible to send emails with this crate.

Thanks

2

You could poll your existing provider's email box using pop3 or imap, or if you're running your own SMTP server (e.g. Postfix) you could parse the Maildir files.

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Great!

Thanks for the ideas

4

In /etc/aliases you can use mailbox-name: "|/path/to/exe" syntax to have received e-mails piped directly to the program. It's like cgi-bin of e-mail.

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Thanks, the easiest way was to choose the imap crate!

For the sake of completeness, here is my a minimal example:

Cargo.toml

imap = "0.8.1"
native-tls = "0.1" #this might be 0.2 in the near future
mailparse = "0.6.2"

main.rs

extern crate imap;
extern crate mailparse;
extern crate native_tls;

use native_tls::{TlsConnector, TlsStream};
use std::net::TcpStream;
use imap::client::Client;

use mailparse::*;

fn main() {
    let socket_addr = ("imap domain.com", 993);
    let ssl_connector = TlsConnector::builder().unwrap().build().unwrap();
    let mut imap_socket =
        imap::client::Client::secure_connect(socket_addr, "imap domain.com", &ssl_connector)
            .unwrap();

    imap_socket
        .login("email@example.com", "password")
        .unwrap();

    match imap_socket.select("INBOX") {
        Ok(mailbox) => {
            println!("{}", mailbox);
        }
        Err(e) => println!("Error selecting INBOX: {}", e),
    };

    let mut unseen = imap_socket
        .run_command_and_read_response("UID SEARCH UNSEEN 1:*")
        .unwrap();

    // remove last line of response (OK Completed)
    unseen.pop();

    let mut uids = Vec::new();
    let unseen = ::std::str::from_utf8(&unseen[..]).unwrap();
    let unseen = unseen.split_whitespace().skip(2);
    for uid in unseen.take_while(|&e| e != "" && e != "Completed") {
        if let Ok(uid) = usize::from_str_radix(uid, 10) {
            uids.push(format!("{}", uid));
        }
    }

    uids.reverse(); //latest first

    for uid in uids.iter() {
        let raw = imap_socket.uid_fetch(uid, "RFC822").unwrap();

        for message in raw.iter() {
            let m = message.rfc822();

            if m.is_none() {
                continue;
            }

            let parsed = parse_mail(m.unwrap()).unwrap();

            let subject = parsed.headers.get_first_value("Subject").unwrap().unwrap();
            let from = parsed.headers.get_first_value("From").unwrap().unwrap();

            if parsed.subparts.len() > 0 {
                let body = parsed.subparts[0].get_body().unwrap();

                println!("From: {}", from);
                println!("Subject: {}", subject);
                println!("Body: {}", body);
            }
        }
    }
}
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This caused an error in compiling.
claims client to be private!
I used latest versions of crates.

What is wrong?

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The imap libary changed since this post 3 years ago : imap::Client.

Don't post in old threads please.

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ok, thanks for advice.