java & POP mail

[andrewbadera]

I need to write an email POP'g and scraping application that parses XML email attachments (I'll be going DOM, they're short, single-record files) and passes the parsed data to a database located external to my client's network, with their website ISP, probably by making a URLConnection to an ASP script on the server (each record only contains 15 or so elements, it's not a lot of data, and access to the database with the ISP is fairly limited).

The only aspect of this that I'm unfamiliar with is how to obtain POP email. Is javax.mail the way to go? Is it the only way to go? Would anyone have any tutorial-type references?

TIA-
--andrew

 

[daniel135]

javax.mail works fine for me. As to where to find a tutorial... google is your friend:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&querytime=YT-E&q=javax.mail+tutorial

try the SUN tutorial first...

 

[carpeliam]

If you download the JavaMail package, it comes with a PDF document. I've personally found it to be quite helpful. Liam Morley
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