Background: We are developing a web-based customer service application that needs the ability to enter new "cases" from an email acount.
We need a stand-alone program to read and parse emails (POP & IMAP) from a customer support email account.
The email needs to be parsed into:
Sender email - the email address of the sender
Subject - the subject of the email
Message - text only version of the body of the email message. This is the difficult part since it needs to be able to parse multiple attachments and mime types. HTML must be converted to plain text.
Timestamp - the date and time when the email was recieved.
We do not need to duplicate all of the information in the email, just enough to create a new case.
## Deliverables
1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done.
2) Deliverables must be in ready-to-run condition, as follows (depending on the nature of the deliverables):
a) For web sites or other server-side deliverables intended to only ever exist in one place in the Buyer's environment--Deliverables must be installed by the Seller in ready-to-run condition in the Buyer's environment.
b) For all others including desktop software or software the buyer intends to distribute: A software installation package that will install the software in ready-to-run condition on the platform(s) specified in this bid request.
3) All deliverables will be considered "work made for hire" under U.S. Copyright law. Buyer will receive exclusive and complete copyrights to all work purchased. (No GPL, GNU, 3rd party components, etc. unless all copyright ramifications are explained AND AGREED TO by the buyer on the site per the coder's Seller Legal Agreement).
## Platform
We would prefer it to run on a BEA Weblogic Application Sever as a Java Servlet.
Alternatively, PHP script.