The Probe for Email monitors either an IMAP or a POP3 mail server, from which it gets events in the form of emails. It retrieves events by matching a regular expression to a particular header field in an email.
For details about how to download the most recent version of the probe, see the following Release Notice on the IBM Software Support website:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/162533
The probe is described in the following sections: