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I need to automatically print every email message I get from a GMAIL, YAHOO or HOTMAIL account, the process must be unattended. Is there an application like this? It can be a client application that checks for incomming messages and automatically prints them with some kind of filtering.

Email to Printer Gateway Jason Ellison infotek@gmail.com http://www.jasonellison.net/ This document covers setting up a Linux box to download email from a POP3 account on a Microsoft Exchange server and printing it to a network printer. When the emails are downloaded they are deleted. Already read emails are also deleted. Only new emails will be printed. This example was done using Slackware 12.0.0 Setup printer in cups chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.cups /etc/rc.d/rc.cups start links http://127.0.0.1:631/ add the printer, print a test page, and make it the default or specify it in the lpr command. Create user root@monitor:~# adduser Login name for new user []: printemail User ID ('UID') [ defaults to next available ]: Initial group [ users ]: Additional groups (comma separated) []: Home directory [ /home/printemail ] Shell [ /bin/bash ] /bin/false - Warning: /bin/false is not in /etc/shells (potential problem using FTP) Do you wish to change the shell ? (Y/n) n Expiry date (YYYY-MM-DD) []: New account will be created as follows: --------------------------------------- Login name.......: printemail UID..............: [ Next available ] Initial group....: users Additional groups: [ None ] Home directory...: /home/printemail Shell............: /bin/false Expiry date......: [ Never ] This is it... if you want to bail out, hit Control-C. Otherwise, press ENTER to go ahead and make the account. Creating new account... Changing the user information for printemail Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default Full Name []: Room Number []: Work Phone []: Home Phone []: Other []: Changing password for printemail Enter the new password (minimum of 5, maximum of 127 characters) Please use a combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers. New password: Bad password: too short. Warning: weak password (enter it again to use it anyway). New password: Re-enter new password: Password changed. Account setup complete. root@monitor:~# usermod -p a5wEg324s printemail root@monitor:~# usermod -L printemail I disable the account from remote logins for security. Slackware's cron daemon does not use the users shell anyway. Configure Fetchmail to retrieve email into the local account Use fetchmail to obtain mail from remote locations. printemail@monitor:~$ cat .fetchmailrc poll mail.example.org with proto POP3 and options no dns user 'support' there with password 's3cr3t' is 'printemail' here and wants mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" options nokeep flush printemail@monitor:~$ chmod 0710 .fetchmailrc Script mailx to print email Create a mailx command file that: a. prints the first email b. deletes the first email c. quits the program * note: I tried to do this using mailrc but the program would not respect the quit command when there were more than 2 emails in the mailbox !*? #.mailcmd set cmd=/usr/bin/lpr set page=yes set pipe-text/html="lynx -dump -force_html /dev/stdin" #mailrc would not respect the quit command folder /var/mail/printemail pipe 1 /usr/bin/lpr delete 1 quit Then write a bash script to run mailx until no new mail exists in the mailbox. #!/usr/bin/bash #/usr/local/bin/print_email.sh #fetch the new mail /usr/bin/fetchmail > /dev/null #print all new mail while ( /usr/bin/mailx -e > /dev/null 2>&1 ); do /usr/bin/mailx -B < ~/.mailcmd ; sleep 1 ; done Schedule the job Finally you would want to cron the job so that it runs every five minutes. root@nebula:~# crontab -l | grep print_email # print_email every five minutes */5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/print_email.sh 1> /dev/null http://jasonellison.net/files/Email_to_printer_gateway.pdf