Reading POP3 Email... or widgetize?

[eluser]sophistry[/eluser]
http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/59858/

that link is another thread with a recent post about this class.

there's not much external documentation but, there are lots of comments in the code!

basically, you need to look at the code and look for the file writing section.
you'll need two things: a directory that the webserver has write permissions to and and attachment in an email.

use the wiki page example to get an email. once you can do that, just add these two functions
then run the class functions:

// set your attachement path
set_IMAP_attachment_dir('path/to/dir')
// get first email in queue and store the attachment
grab_email_as_array_and_store(1)

HTH.