Email Messages Input
Description
The Email Messages Input transform allows you to retrieve messages and their attachments from a mail server using the POP3, IMAP or MBOX standard protocols.
Options
General
On this tab you will find the general mail server connection settings:
Option | Description |
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Transform name | Name of the transform. |
Source host | The mail server host |
Use SSL? | Check this option if your server needs an SSL connection |
Username | The username of the mailbox to connect to |
Password | The password to use |
Use proxy? | Check this option if you want to connect through a proxy. |
Proxy username | The username to connect to the proxy with |
Fetch in batches? | Enable this option if you want to retrieve larger volumes of mails in batches |
Ignore errors reading fields | Sometimes a server doesn’t support the retrieval of a particular piece of information. Enable this option to ignore these errors. |
Protocol | Specify either standard protocol POP3, IMAP or MBOX to retrieve the mails |
Test Connection button | This will simply try to connect to the mail server with the specified settings. This button does not retrieve mails. |
Settings
POP3 settings
Option | Description |
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Retrieve | Specify either "All emails" or "Retrieve first… emails" |
Retrieve the … first emails | Allows you to specify how many mails you want to retrieve at most in one go |
IMAP settings
Option | Description |
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Get folder from field | Enable this option to allow the IMAP folder name to be present in an input field of this transform. |
Folder field | The folder field in case the option above is enabled. |
IMAP folder | The IMAP folder to retrieve mails from |
Test folder… button | Use this to test if the folder is valid |
Open button | use this to select the IMAP folder |
Include subfolders | Check this option to also retrieve mails from sub-folders |
Retrieve | Specify which mails to retrieve: Get all, new, old, read, unread, flagged, not flagged, draft, not draft, answered or not answered messages. |
Retrieve the first … emails | Specify how many emails to retrieve at most |
Batch settings
Option | Description |
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Batch size | Number of emails to retrieve at once in one batch |
Start at message number | The first message number to start retrieving at |
End at message number | The last message number to end retrieving with |