Overview

Mail listener library for node.js. Get notification when new email arrived to inbox. Uses IMAP protocol.

We are using these libraries: node-imap, mailparser.

Heavily inspired by this gist.

Use

Install

npm install mail-listener

JavaScript Code:

var MailListener = require("mail-listener");

var mailListener = new MailListener({
  username: "imap-username",
  password: "imap-password",
  host: "imap-host",
  port: 993, // imap port
  secure: true, // use secure connection
  mailbox: "INBOX", // mailbox to monitor
  markSeen: true, // all fetched email willbe marked as seen and not fetched next time
  fetchUnreadOnStart: true // use it only if you want to get all unread email on lib start. Default is `false`
});

mailListener.start();

mailListener.on("server:connected", function(){
  console.log("imapConnected");
});
  
mailListener.on("mail:arrived", function(id){
  console.log("new mail arrived with id:" + id);
});

mailListener.on("mail:parsed", function(mail){
  // do something with mail object including attachments
  console.log("emailParsed", mail.attachments);
  // mail processing code goes here
});

// it's possible to access imap object from node-imap library for performing additional actions. E.x.
mailListener.imap.move(:msguids, :mailboxes, function(){}) 

CoffeeScript Code:

MailListener = require "mail-listener"

mailListener = new MailListener
  username: "imap-username"
  password: "imap-password"
  host: "imap-host"
  port: 993 # imap port
  secure: true # use secure connection
  mailbox: "INBOX" # mailbox to monitor
  markSeen: true # all fetched email willbe marked as seen and not fetched next time
  fetchUnreadOnStart: true # use it only if you want to get all unread email on lib start. Default is `false`


 # start listener. You can stop it calling `stop method`
mailListener.start()

# subscribe to server connected event
mailListener.on "server:connected", ->
  console.log "imap connected"

# subscribe to error events
mailListener.on "error", (err) ->
  console.log "error happened", err

# mail arrived and was parsed by parser 
mailListener.on "mail:parsed", (mail) ->
  # do something with mail object including attachments
  console.log "parsed email with attachment", mail.attachments
  ## mail processing code goes here

## it's possible to access imap object from node-imap library for performing additional actions. E.x.
mailListener.imap.move :msguids, :mailboxes, ->

That's easy!

Contributions

Mail-listener is ready to use in your project. However if you need any feature tell us or fork project and implement it by yourself.

We appreciate feedback!

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2011-2013 CircuitHub., https://circuithub.com/

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