[Zope] Zope-mail gateway

Jay, Dylan djay@lucent.com
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 14:20:33 +1000


The imap adapter makes mail available to zope. It becomes a sort of data
source. It can also be used as a authentication source. It doesn't to my
knowledge allow actions based on new mail arriving.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Baron [mailto:chris@ninedots.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 14:20
> To: Jay, Dylan
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope-mail gateway
> 
> 
> Hi Jay,
> 
> I'm not an expert but I think IMAP is the way to do what you 
> want.  The
> Portal Toolkit will have functions or at least hooks 
> available for this.  I
> was talking to the DC guys about very thing just a week or so ago.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chris
> 
> At 02:01 PM 8/11/99 +1000, you wrote:
> >Zope acts as a publishing medium between documents that can 
> be rendered on
> >the server side and clients. So far there is http, ftp, webdav etc as
> >protocols for this interaction. How about mail? I send a 
> mail. It gets
> >mapped to a zope object somehow. This object gets rendered 
> and sent back.
> >Zope could support smtp or it could use pop polling. Using 
> it as a list
> >server it would probably inefficient but for processing 
> email forms etc it
> >would be very cool.
> >
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