Receive emails in matlab

I am working on a program where people email the name of a color to a dedicated email account. Matlab would then check the email account and change the color of an attached light to that particular color.

I know that Matlab has a built in sendmail function, but I have not found anything about built in mail checking functionality. I found a few things about using Java, but I am not entirely sure how to do that.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

You could use

 urlread

on a web-based email system. I'd guess there are better ways though. Good Luck!

[Chris Mondiek]

It is a web based email system. But how do I pass the username and password to it using urlread?

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

My memory is playing tricks on me; I thought I had answered this just last week, but it looks like it was November. Please see this previous discussion

[Walter Roberson]

See http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/en/data/1-4EO8VK/index.html?solution=1-4EO8VK for what you need to do to use basic authentication.