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#!/bin/rc
exec echo user : $user

# This script utilises the upas/fs mounted mail system to mount a remote mailbox and then 
# transfer the messages using the local smtp process.

# [email protected]
# 16/7/2002


# run our own copy of factotum so we dont use the current process's one
auth/factotum -n

# we're going to need a clean mail too
upas/fs

# read the parameters from /usr/$user/pop3
# the format of which is line separated records of space or tab separated fields :
# protocol domain username password
# Example :
# pop	pop3.aol.om	connie	secret
# 
# $key(1)	$key(2)	$key(3)	$key(4)
# 
fn init {
	pwfile = /usr/$user/pop3
	keep = 0
	# -f pwfile  <- use a different pw file
	while(~ $1 -*){
		switch($1){
		case -f:
			shift
			pwfile = $1
		case -k:
			keep = '1'
		}
		shift
	}
}

fn log_in {
	# insert a key into the local factotum 
	echo 'key proto=pass service=pop dom=' ^$server ^' user=' ^$username ^' !password=' ^$password > /mnt/factotum/ctl

	# open the mailbox, it get's mounted as /mail/fs/$username
	echo 'open /pop/'^$server ^' ' ^$username > /mail/fs/ctl		
}

fn log_out {
	echo 'close ' ^$username > /mail/fs/ctl						# close the mailbox

	# delete the key from factotum so that we can process multiple pop3 boxes on the same domain
	echo 'delkey proto=pass service=pop dom=' ^$server ^' user=' ^$username > /mnt/factotum/ctl

}

fn get_msg_list {
	ls -d /mail/fs/$username/[0-9]*
}			


init

{
	key = `{read}
	num_msgs = 0
	while(test $#key '!=' '0') {  # die when null/blank line
	
		username = $key(3)
		server = $key(2)
		password = $key(4)
		switch($key(1)) {
		# made it a switch for expansion and comments 
		case pop3 :
			# tell stdout what we're doing
			log_in
			echo from $username at $server to $user
			for (msg in `{get_msg_list}) {
				cat $msg/raw | upas/send -b $user
						
				num_msgs = `{echo $num_msgs + 1 | bc}
				echo From: `{cat $msg/from}				# Tell stdout
				echo Subject : `{cat $msg/subject}
			if (test $keep '=' '0')
				rm $msg							# delete message from the remote server
			}
			log_out

		}
		key = `{read}
	}

} < $pwfile

echo $num_msgs mails processed.

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