How to check and get notified when receive a specific email?
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Hello. I would like to write a Qt program which checks and notifies when I get a specific email. I have checked some network examples on Qt document but can't seem to find what I need. Perhaps I missed something. Could anyone point me out where to start? Or are there any examples?
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Hi
maybe this can be good start
http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php/Pop3Retriever?content=91315
If you need more , I would go look for a pop3 library to use.
Writing an email client from scratch is huge task. :) -
@mrjj Thank you for your suggestion. I will check that out.
Can you explain your use case a bit more ?
I have this Qt program to track an object which have a specific pattern of movement. From time to time, could be daily, I will get an email if that object needs to be relocated in order to avoid a collision. I would like to get a notification shown in my program when I get that specific email among all other mails.
I think I should first be able login to an email, check for specific word (of sender or subject) and once I find that word, I tell the program to show notify me.
I have looked around and found that QSslSocket might be useful for logging in to gmail? Then I can use QDialog to show a notification?
All suggestions are welcome. Thank you.
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So you would need some sort of imap client to go through your emails ?
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Hello,
So I found some email examples from the link @mrjj suggested which uses QXmlStreamReader along with Atom system (https://developers.google.com/gmail/gmail_inbox_feed). Then I matched the parameter eg. author name I got from Xml file with a specific sender name and voilà! Thank you.
