Ebay Items

[usandstuff]

Help,
I'm trying to create a script which will do the following.

1) Get the Item ID from an Ebay subject line
2) Check to see if a mailbox exists with the ID number as it's name
3) If not, create a mailbox with the ID number as the name
4) Move the message to the mailbox

It sounds complicated and I'm not sure where to start.


Thanks

[Eric]

Hi usandstuff & welcome to Poco Forums,

Help,
I'm trying to create a script which will do the following.
It sounds complicated and I'm not sure where to start.

Have a look at Script to create a sub-mailbox?.

Another reference: the unofficial Pocomail FAQ.

Can't help you much more, but it's a start.

We'll have to wait until someone else who knows more about scripts can help you more.

[Pete]

Actually, PocoScript makes this easier than it sounds. PocoScript automatically creates mailboxes if they don't already exist.

I would start with the script that I posted here:
http://pocosystems.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2165

You'll just have to add some logic to the beginning of it and then replace the "To Do" phrase with a variable.

If you post a sample email subject, someone should be able to help.

[usandstuff]

A typical ebay subject line is:

eBay Bid Confirmed: HOYA CIR-POLARISING FILTER 58.0s (Item #7517985466)

I want to pull the item number and create a mailbox if it doesn't already exist, then move the message to it.

Thanks

[Pete]

This is how I would do this:

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Set $root "In\\Ebay"

ReadHeader $subject "Subject:" %message
StringPos #index "(Item #" $subject
If #index = 0 Then DONE
AddIntegers #index 6   { Ignore (Item #
ChopString $subject 1 #index
Trim $subject
CharCount #size $subject
ChopString $subject #size 1
Set $mailbox ""
AddStrings $mailbox $root \ $subject
SaveMessage %message $mailbox
DeleteMessage %message

:DONE
Exit

It will save it to a top-level mailbox. If you want to save it to a submailbox, then I can add logic to the script if you give me an example submailbox name (e.g. In\Ebay or Folder1\Folder2\Ebay\Items or whatever).

[usandstuff]

Many thanks for the replies,
If you can just let me know how to create the mailboxes for an example of
In\Ebay\Mailbox, I'll figure the rest of the Subs.
Also, what does "AddIntegers #index 6" do, as there are 9 numbers in the ebay item code, should this be AddIntegers #index 9?

Thanks again

Usandstuff

[Michael]

Use double backslashes in place of single ones (Poco treats the backslash as an escape character). E.g., In\\Ebay\\Mailbox

The AddIntegers command adds 6 to the value stored in variable #index. This was accounting for the number of characters in the string "Item #".

[Pete]

Okay, you're welcome. I've updated the script (above).

[usandstuff]

Thanks for this,
I'll have a play this weekend and see what happens.

UsAndStuff