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Get Mails from Gmail in R
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# credit goes to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4241812/how-can-i-send-receive-smtp-pop3-email-using-r | |
library(rJython) | |
rJython <- rJython( modules = "poplib") | |
rJython$exec("import poplib") | |
rJython$exec("M = poplib.POP3_SSL('pop.gmail.com', 995)") | |
rJython$exec("M.user(\'<username>@gmail.com\')") | |
rJython$exec("M.pass_(\'<password>\')") | |
rJython$exec("numMessages = len(M.list()[1])") | |
numMessages <- rJython$get("numMessages")$getValue() | |
# grab message number one. Loop here if you | |
# want more messages | |
rJython$exec("msg = M.retr(1)[1]") | |
emailContent <- rJython$get("msg") | |
# turn the message into a list | |
contentList <- as.list(emailContent) | |
# so we have an R list... of Java objects | |
# To get a more native R list we have to | |
# yank the string from each Java item | |
messageToList <- function(contentList){ | |
outList <- list() | |
for (i in 1:length(contentList)){ | |
outList[i] <- contentList[[i]]$toString() | |
} | |
outList | |
} | |
messageAsList <- messageToList(contentList) | |
messageAsList |
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