Can I redirect a webmail-only email account?
September 16, 2005 8:31 AM Subscribe
Is it possible to screen scrape or somehow redirect a webmail-only account? For stupid reasons our school has restricted email this way and I'd really like to reduce the amount of email accounts I have to keep track of.
I guess some clueless student was shunting all of their forwarded school email to their spam folder. So now we can only access it via webmail. No POP or telnet. Is there some way of grabbing the mail that I can do transparently? I run Tiger on my laptop, if it matters. I prefer Safari, but I do have Firefox as well.
I guess some clueless student was shunting all of their forwarded school email to their spam folder. So now we can only access it via webmail. No POP or telnet. Is there some way of grabbing the mail that I can do transparently? I run Tiger on my laptop, if it matters. I prefer Safari, but I do have Firefox as well.
onalark seems to have a suggestion worth checking into. But if your IS department won't help you out and you're stuck having to screen scrape, this seems like a good job for WWW::Mechanize for Perl.
posted by ducksauce at 9:00 AM on September 16, 2005
posted by ducksauce at 9:00 AM on September 16, 2005
Response by poster: These are both excellent suggestions. I will try sweet-talking the IT department first -- if not one of these two solutions should work.
posted by O9scar at 11:39 AM on September 16, 2005
posted by O9scar at 11:39 AM on September 16, 2005
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posted by onalark at 8:37 AM on September 16, 2005