by Reinhard Max, August 2003.This little script (originally written in early 2003) fetches emails from T-Online's web mailer [1]. I wrote it, because T-Online charges too much extra money (currently 2.95 Euro/month) for POP3 access from outside their own dialup networks.The name is a merger of the three words POP3 (although it doesn't actually talk POP3), T-Online, and Popeline, the German word for poplin. I chose it because T-Online leaves you out in the rain when you want to move on to another access provider, but keep your email address at t-online.Fortunately the webmailer allows for downloading of selected emails in the traditional mbox format. This makes it easy to re-gain the original emails, including all the header fields, and pass them on via smtp or local delivery on Unix systems.To use it on Windows, you can either add support for storing the configuration in the registry, or simply set the variables at the beginning of the script instead of sourcing the config file.Required extensions are http, Tls, and tcllib's mime, and smtp packages.
set config ~/.pop3line
if {[file exists $config]} {
source $config
} else {
set fd [open $config w]
file attributes $config -permissions 0600
puts $fd "# Die T-Online E-Mail Adresse, von der die Mails geholt werden."
puts $fd "set login {@t-online.de}"
puts $fd ""
puts $fd "# Das Passwort fuer den T-Online Webmailer."
puts $fd "set password {mysecret}"
puts $fd ""
puts $fd "# Der SMTP-Server, Ueber den die Mails weitergeschickt werden."
puts $fd "set smtpserver localhost"
puts $fd ""
puts $fd "# Der Benutzer, an den die Mails weitergeschickt werden."
puts $fd "set recipient $tcl_platform(user)"
puts $fd ""
puts $fd "# Sollen die Emails nach dem Abholen"
puts $fd "# geloescht werden (1) oder nicht (0)?"
puts $fd "set delete 1"
close $fd
puts "Created configuration file: $config ."
puts "Please edit and run me again."
exit 1
}
package require http
package require tls
package require mime
package require smtp
http::register https 443 ::tls::socket
proc formail data {
set next -1
puts -nonewline stderr "Passing emails "
while 42 {
set start [string first \n $data [expr {$next + 1}]]
incr start
set next [string first "\nFrom " $data $start]
set end [expr {($next == -1) ? "end" : ($next - 1)}]
set mail [string range $data $start $end]
set T [mime::initialize -string $mail]
set cmd [list smtp::sendmessage $T -queue 1 \
-servers $::smtpserver -recipients $::recipient]
foreach {key value} [mime::getheader $T] {
mime::setheader $T $key "" -mode delete
foreach item $value {
lappend cmd -header [list $key $item]
}
}
eval $cmd
mime::finalize $T
puts -nonewline stderr .
if {$next == -1} break
}
puts stderr ""
}
proc debug {descr string} {
# puts stderr "===> $descr: $string"
}
proc main {} {
set error 0
set BASE https://modem.webmail.t-online.de
# login and redirect
debug URL $BASE/index.cgp
set token [http::geturl $BASE/index.cgp]
debug STATUS [http::status $token]
set data [http::data $token]
debug DATA $data
http::cleanup $token
regexp {name="sessionid" value="([^\"]*)">} $data -> id
regexp {input type="text" name='([^']*)'} $data -> logfield
regexp {input type="password" name='([^']*)'} $data -> passfield
debug SID $id
debug NAME $logfield
debug PASS $passfield
set query [http::formatQuery js 0 \
sessionid $id \
$logfield $::login \
$passfield $::password]
# message overview
debug URL $BASE/main.cgp
debug QUERY $query
set token [http::geturl $BASE/main.cgp -query $query]
debug STATUS [http::status $token]
set data [http::data $token]
debug DATA $data
http::cleanup $token
# Redefine BASE according to the current session
regexp {<A HREF="([^\"]+)/main.cgp">} $data -> BASE
# find the emails
set RE {name="(MAIL[^\"]*)" value="([^\"]*)">}
set query ""
while 42 {
debug URL $BASE/main.cgp
debug QUERY $query
set token [http::geturl $BASE/main.cgp -query $query]
debug STATUS [http::status $token]
set data [http::data $token]
debug DATA $data
http::cleanup $token
set mails [list]
foreach {_ name value} [regexp -all -inline $RE $data] {
lappend mails $name $value
}
set count [expr {[llength $mails]/2}]
if {$count} {
puts stderr "Downloading $count mail(s)."
} else {
puts stderr "No (more) mails to download!"
break
}
set query [eval http::formatQuery Speichern.x 1 $mails]
debug URL $BASE/mailfolder.txt
debug QUERY $query
set token [http::geturl $BASE/mailfolder.txt -query $query]
debug STATUS [http::status $token]
array set meta [set ${token}(meta)]
set http [set ${token}(http)]
set ncode [http::ncode $token]
set data [http::data $token]
debug DATA $data
http::cleanup $token
if {$ncode == 200 && $meta(Content-Type) eq "x-download/rfc822"} {
formail $data
if {$::delete} {
lappend mails Loeschen.x 1
set query [eval [linsert $mails 0 http::formatQuery]]
} else break
} else {
puts stderr "$http"
set error 1
break
}
}
exit $error
}
mainCoincidentally in a recent article German c't magazine [2] showed a solution written in Perl for the same issue [3].
rmax, January 2004: I replaced the code above with my current version that should be somewhat more robust and includes debugging support, which becomes handy if T-Online changes the page structure, and you have to adapt the script.
