This scenario is a one-component Job that retrieves a predefined number of email
messages from an email server.

• Drop the tPOP component from the Palette to the design workspace.

• Double click tPOP to display the Basic settings view and define the component
  properties.

• Enter the email server IP address and port number in the corresponding
  fields.

• Enter the username and password for your email account in the corresponding
  fields. In this example, the email server is called Free.

• In the Output directory field, enter the
  path to the output directory manually, or click the three-dot button next to the
  field and browse to the output directory where the email messages retrieved from
  the email server are to be stored.

• In the Filename pattern field, define the
  syntax you want to use to name the output files that will hold the messages
  retrieved from the email server, or press Ctrl+Space to display a list of predefined patterns. The syntax
  used in this example is the following:
  TalendDate.getDate("yyyyMMdd-hhmmss") + "_" + (counter_tPOP_1 + 1) +
".txt".

  The output files will be stored as .txt files and are defined by date, time
  and arrival chronological order.

• Clear the Retrieve all emails? field and in
  the Number of emails to retrieve field, enter
  the number of email messages you want to retrieve, 10 in this example.

• Select the Delete emails from server check
  box to delete the email messages from the email server once they are retrieved
  and stored locally.

• In the Choose the protocol field, select the
  protocol type you want to use. This depends on the protocol used by the email
  server. Certain email suppliers, like Gmail, use both
  protocols. In this example, the protocol used is pop3.

• Save your Job and press F6 to execute
  it.

The tPOP component retrieves the 10 recent messages
from the specified email server.

In the tPOP directory stored locally, a .txt file is created for
each retrieved message. Each file holds the metadata of the email message headings
(sender’s address, recipient’s address, subject matter) in addition to the message
content.