The NetMailBot Command Line

 

 Recall that you will need at minimum four things to retrieve email:

 

• The name of your POP3 server. Your ISP or system adminstrator should be able to tell you this (e.g. pop.mycompany.com).
• An email account on the server. Example, jdoe@hotmail.com or your email address.
• The password for the above-mentioned account.
• At least one message in your Inbox at this account.

 

In a DOS Command Window, type the following, filling in your particular details for the placeholders below: 

                          

NetMailBot -receive -popreceive 1 -popuser {your email address here} -poppassword {your account password here} -popserver {your POP3 server name here} (Press Enter)

 

This is the simplest invocation of NetMailBot mail reception possible - the first email in your Inbox will be retrieved and its parts saved to your System Temporary Directory. In this example we are not using a batch file, just a straight command line invocation.

 

The Results

 

Once you type the above and press the Enter key, you will see something similar to to the following: 

                          

Connecting to mail.mycompany.com...

Connected

Receiving Message 1...

Message 1 Received and Saved

From:             joe.blow@othercompany.com

Subject:          test message

Message-Id:       <000c01c4662b$1b485a90$64dfa8c0@mypc>

# of attachments: 0

 

Disconnected

 

 

-------***[ NetMailBot Ended: 07/09/2004 23:17:04]***-------

 

If you see the text "Message 1 Received and Saved", then you have successfully retrieved the first email in your Inbox.

 

For a simple email (this one was sent from Microsoft Outlook Express):

 

From:    Suzie Q

Date:    Friday, July 09, 2004 11:07 PM

To:      Joe Blow

Subject: test message

 

test body

 

The System Temporary Directory will contain two files:

 

text_plain1.txt

text_html1.html

 

Each simply contains the body of the message, in this case, "test body" (the HTML file is this text wrapped in minimal HTML tags).

 

If you do not see the success message, check the error message that NetMailBot displayed. 

 

• Did you enter the correct email server name, user email address, and password? 
• Are you sure there is actually an email in your Inbox to be had?

 

If you are still having problems, contact ExclamationSoft support for assistance.