Mail retrieval - how to do it using PL/SQL

Hi,
I want to automatically pull emails on daily bases and store it in a table... how to do it...?
Please advice
Thanks in advance

qwe12654 wrote:
I want to automatically pull emails on daily bases and store it in a table... how to do it...?There are 2 application protocols for reading e-mails from a mailbox. The POP3 (Post Office Protocol v3) and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) protocols. There are also proprietary ones (like used by Microsoft Exchange).
POP3 is however the most common one. Like SMTP it is clear text and relatively easy to use. Unlike SMTP, Oracle does not supply a UTL_SMTP package for it. So you need to use UTL_TCP directly in order to create a client socket for communicating with the mailbox.
Some years ago I posted a very basic example of interacting with a POP3 mailbox using a pipeline table function. See {message:id=2018101} for the source code.
This does POP3 authentication and using the RETR (retrieve) command to fetch an e-mail from the mailbox. Adding additional commands to list the number of mails in the mailbox and delete them after retrieval, should not be a problem.
The POP3 protocol specification is detailed in RFC 1939.

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