Automatically Print Emails

JustinKubicek · 11-23-2009, 01:44 PM

I would like an application that will automatically check my GMail account (via POP3 or IMAP or something), and automatically print the EMails out. I would like it to print the graphics too. Any ideas of how I could do this for free in Linux? The machine is running a stripped down command line version debain etch.

Thanks!

Justin

rweaver · 11-23-2009, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by JustinKubicek

I would like an application that will automatically check my GMail account (via POP3 or IMAP or something), and automatically print the EMails out. I would like it to print the graphics too. Any ideas of how I could do this for free in Linux? The machine is running a stripped down command line version debain etch.

Thanks!

Justin

There is no tool I know of that does that by default but you could accomplish it via a few different methods curl+scripting, fetchmail+procmail, regardless of what method you use you'll probably need to use something to convert the graphics before printing.

JustinKubicek · 11-23-2009, 11:16 PM

Thanks rweaver. I've read about fetchmail and procmail before, but never used them. I have ghostscript installed on the machine already. Actually I have a php script on a web server where if I upload a PDF to it, it will print as soon as the upload has finished. So here is what I think I need...

fetchmail
procmail to execute a script to upload to my php script

Any tips? I don't know how to use fetchmail or procmail. Does any one know of some good how-tos that I should follow?

Thanks a lot!