# Collect emails from email server **URL:** \ **Category:** KNIME Analytics Platform\ **Created:** [May 17, 2021, 11:33am UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/collect-emails-from-email-server/32994 "2021-05-17T11:33:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![ScottF](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/user_avatar/forum.knime.com/scottf/32/61316_2.png) [@ScottF](https://forum.knime.com/u/ScottF)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2021, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/collect-emails-from-email-server/32994/2 "2021-05-25T15:04:50Z")
Hi @DmitryIvanov76 - This is an interesting question! As far as I know, there isn’t a way to do this directly using a single node in KNIME. I know the [Tika Parser](https://kni.me/n/laHYOV8XTfTg9D6n) can read .eml files - a specialized format, to be sure - but there’s not a way to monitor an email inbox in real time. As a workaround, maybe you could set up your email software to save the email text in a particular directory, perhaps using a forwarding rule or similar. Then you could use a component like the one below to watch for new emails, and afterward start processing: > **[Wait for File in folder (new filehandling) – gab1one](https://hub.knime.com/gab1one/spaces/Public/latest/Wait%20for%20File%20in%20folder%20(new%20filehandling)~Fo54vLcvevyCs_lw)** > > Waits for files to appear in the target folder. - Configure the wait time and the local file path to watch in the configuration dialog of this component - The … At any rate, we have a ticket for this feature request in our system (AP-9187), and I have added a +1 on that from you. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.knime.com/t/collect-emails-from-email-server/32994)._