[Zope] Zope-mail gateway

[Hannu Krosing]

"Jay, Dylan" 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.

I guess you could put something like "|
add_may_mail_to_right_zope_folder" 
into your .forward file and then have a simple (?) program that submits
the 
incoming mail to zope. It can either un-mime the mail itself or submit
it as
one big chunk and have zope external methods do the work of splitting
the 
parts, decoding and saving with appropriate mime type

> This object gets rendered and sent back.

To send something back is easy - just use MailHost.

> Zope could support smtp or it could use pop polling.

Supporting SMTP directly is probably a bad idea for current (1.10.x) 
unthreaded servers as mail could be arraiving real slow. 
The technique described above is the equivalent of using apache with
(p)cgi.

> Using it as a list server it would probably inefficient but for 
> processing email forms etc it would be very cool.

With ZCatalog it would also make a nice searchable mail storage.

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Hannu