tPOP Standard properties

Host

IP address of the email server you want to connect to.

Port

Port number of the email server.

Authentication mode

Select one of the two authentication modes from the drop-down list.

• Basic, which authenticates accesses using username and password. You need to provide the username and password to retrieve the mail messages. To enter the password, click the [...] button next to the Password field, enter the password in double quotes in the pop-up dialog box, and click OK to save the settings.
• OAuth2, which authenticates accesses using OAuth 2.0. You need to provide the username and OAuth access token to retrieve the mail messages. To enter the OAuth access token, click the [...] button next to the OAuth Access Token field, enter the OAuth access token in double quotes in the pop-up dialog box, and click OK to save the settings.

• Microsoft Exchange, which authenticates accesses using Microsoft Exchange. You need to provide the username, tenant ID, application (client) ID, and secret value of a Microsoft Azure application in the Username, Directory (tenant) ID, Application (client) ID, and Secret Value fields. Note that the Microsoft Azure application needs to have the POP or IMAP API permission and the service principal of the application needs to be registered in Microsoft Exchange. See Configuring a Microsoft Azure application for POP and IMAP and Registering the service principal of an application in Microsoft Exchange for related information.

Username and Password

User authentication data for the email server.

• Username: enter the username you use to access your email box.
• Password: enter the password you use to access your email box.

These two fields are available when you select Basic from the Authentication mode drop-down list.

Output directory

Enter the path to the file in which you want to store the email messages you retrieve from the email server, or click the [...] button next to the field to browse to the file.

Filename pattern

Define the syntax of the names of the files that will hold each of the email messages retrieved from the email server, or press Ctrl+Space to display the list of predefined patterns.

Retrieve all emails?

Select this check box to retrieve all email messages present on the specified server.

Number of emails to retrieve

Enter the number of email messages you want to retrieve.

This field is available only when the Retrieve all emails? check box is cleared.

Newer email first

Select this check box to retrieve the most recent email messages according to the number specified in the Number of emails to retrieve field, and the email messages will be returned in chronological order.

This check box is available only when the Retrieve all emails? check box, which is selected by default, is cleared.

Delete emails from server

Select this check box if you do not want to keep the retrieved email messages on the server.

Choose the protocol

From the list, select the protocol to be used to retrieve the email messages from the server. This protocol is the one used by the email server. If you choose the imap protocol, you will be able to select the folder from which you want to retrieve your emails.

Use SSL

Select this check box if your email server uses this protocol for authentication and communication confidentiality.

tStatCatcher Statistics

Select this check box to gather the Job processing metadata at a job level as well as at each component level.

Filter

Click the plus button to add as many lines as needed to filter email messages, select one or multiple of the following filter items in the Filter item columns of the lines, and set values for the filter items in the Pattern columns.

• From: email messages are filtered according to the sender email address.
• To: email messages are filtered according to the recipient email address.
• Subject: email messages are filtered according to the message subject matter.
• Before date: email messages are filtered by the sending or receiving date. All messages before the set date are retrieved.
• After date: email messages are filtered by the sending or receiving date. All messages after the set date are retrieved.

To set a value for the filter item, you can enter the value in the Pattern column directly or press Ctrl + Space and select the expression from the list.

Custom properties

Add custom properties and set property values.

To add a custom property key-value pair, add a row in the table by clicking the plus button on the bottom of the table, fill the property name in double quotation marks in the Key column, and fill the property value in the Value column.

Filter condition relation

Select the type of logical relation you want to use to combine the specified filters:

and: the conditions set by the filters are combined together, the research is more restrictive.

or: the conditions set by the filters are independent, the research is large.

Global Variables

ERROR_MESSAGE: the error message generated by the component when an error occurs. This is an After variable and it returns a string. This variable functions only if the Die on error check box is cleared, if the component has this check box.

NB_EMAIL: the number of emails received. This is an After variable and it returns an integer.

CURRENT_FILE: the current file name. This is a Flow variable and it returns a string.

CURRENT_FILEPATH: the current file path. This is a Flow variable and it returns a string.

A Flow variable functions during the execution of a component while an After variable functions after the execution of the component.

To fill up a field or expression with a variable, press Ctrl + Space to access the variable list and choose the variable to use from it.

For further information about variables, see Talend Studio User Guide.

Usage rule

This component does not handle data flow, it can be used alone.

Limitation

When the Use SSL check box or the imap protocol is selected, tPOP cannot work with IBM Java 6.