Polling email client

[Irish_GUI]

Hi, im looking for a method to poll a email client such as outlook or outlook express every few minutes to see whether a new mail has arrived any ideas Thanks

[leppie]

Why not poll the POP3 server instead? top secret xacc-ide 0.0.1

[Irish_GUI]

bascially, we are looking for a method to find out when a new mail arrives, when it arrives and is from a certain sender, we then want to detach the file attachment and use the detachment in our application