[BASH] Parse hotmail.com to download emails?

I am fairly new to shell scripts, but I was wondering if it would be easy to write a bash script that would login to hotmail, open new messages, then write the email to a file or just print it on the terminal? This could probably be included in a simple POP or IMAP server. I'm thinking the script would consist of:

1 logging in
2 download inbox page
3 parse inbox page to get urls to unread messages
4 download the newest unread message
5 parse out the subject, sender, body, etc
6 print subject etc to file
7 repeat 4-6 for other unread messages

I'm not sure how POP and IMAP servers work, but I don't think it would be too difficult to adapt it. This is probably all theoretical, I doubt I will actually go through with this, but sometimes it's fun to think about stuff like this.

edit: curl or lynx might work to login and download pages

[Prometheum]

...why not just use a mail client?

Last time I checked, hotmail doesn't allow people to access their email any way other than webmail. You have to pay to use IMAP or POP.

fuck hotmail

[Prometheum]

Wow, really? Fuck hotmail. Get a gmail account and forward all hotmail email to that.

Hotmail doesn't allow forwarding either. Plus, I already used my hotmail email for most of my accounts. Plus, I was just thinking about doing that script 'cause I was bored and wanted to learn more about how to parse files. This project was basically thought up as a way to get better at scripting and parsing.

[Prometheum]

I doubt hotmail will "let" you, its probably flash/js faggotry.

Originally Posted by Prometheum

I doubt hotmail will "let" you, its probably flash/js faggotry.

You mean the website? They use asp, and I can see the message when I view the source. I'm sure it's possible, if opensource programs (eg. firefox) can view the messages then I should be able to parse out the email, even if it means stealing most of the code from firefox and writing a program in C (or whatever lynx is in). I guess it's just not easy to do, and M$ would easily break it by changing the coding of the website.

Edit: just tried to login in lynx and it says I need JS.

[Prometheum]

Originally Posted by DiamondX

You mean the website? They use asp, and I can see the message when I view the source. I'm sure it's possible, if opensource programs (eg. firefox) can view the messages then I should be able to parse out the email, even if it means stealing most of the code from firefox and writing a program in C (or whatever lynx is in). I guess it's just not easy to do, and M$ would easily break it by changing the coding of the website.

Edit: just tried to login in lynx and it says I need JS.

Yeah, the page source is generated by javascript. That's what I was implying.

Just ditch hotmail.

[rabbitweed]

Originally Posted by Prometheum

Just ditch hotmail.

And us what?