# Recieve email from gmail using POP3

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recieve-email-from-gmail-using-pop3/138227>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 21, 2008, 7:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recieve-email-from-gmail-using-pop3/138227 "2008-05-21T07:04:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![hloooi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@hloooi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hloooi)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 7:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recieve-email-from-gmail-using-pop3/138227/1 "2008-05-21T07:04:05Z")

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can someone help me out with this folder… im stuck and i cant trouble  
shoot where is the error

thx alot~~~

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**Author:** ![hloooi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@hloooi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hloooi)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 7:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recieve-email-from-gmail-using-pop3/138227/2 "2008-05-21T07:06:51Z")

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its working in Windows , not unix

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**Author:** ![hloooi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@hloooi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hloooi)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 9:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recieve-email-from-gmail-using-pop3/138227/3 "2008-05-21T09:44:20Z")

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bump~~~

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**Author:** ![hloooi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@hloooi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hloooi)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 9:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recieve-email-from-gmail-using-pop3/138227/4 "2008-05-21T09:51:09Z")

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First off it’s only been 2-3 hours since your original message.  
Secondly I’d be surprised if you ever get a reply.  
Uploading your project and saying “it doesn’t work” isn’t the best way  
to get people to give you some of their time. Describe what you’re  
doing, what’s going wrong, what you’ve tried etc…

Fred

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**Author:** ![hloooi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@hloooi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hloooi)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 9:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recieve-email-from-gmail-using-pop3/138227/5 "2008-05-21T09:58:59Z")

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oh alright, im tryin to retrieve email from gmail, by using ruby, using  
pop3

but

i get lots of weird error like NameError in EmailController,  
uninitialized constant actionmailer, and lots more which i dont know how  
to locate

so i dont really know if my code is correct…

im not really farmiliar with ruby and the scripting, so hope someone can  
help me out… thx…

sorry for the inconvinient

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**Author:** ![hloooi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@hloooi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/hloooi)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 10:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recieve-email-from-gmail-using-pop3/138227/6 "2008-05-21T10:12:13Z")

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oh, and i tried to search examples in google and books, and most  
examples are on unix platform

and theres other on windows, but quite condusing, cause some of them are  
jus a few lines of coding, but some are very long

[http://allenfair.com/email-on-rails.pdf](http://allenfair.com/email-on-rails.pdf)  
[http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/runnerscript](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/runnerscript)  
[http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/4214](http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/4214)  
[http://coupa.org/2006/12/12/receiving-emails-with-actionmailer-on-windows](http://coupa.org/2006/12/12/receiving-emails-with-actionmailer-on-windows)  
these r the pages that i refere to…