[Zope-CMF] Email In

[Chris Withers]

Tres Seaver wrote:
> 
> Chris Withers wrote:

> On that note, I've been considering a proposal to add content via
> e-mail:
> 
>   - Sender doesn't need to be "online" while composing (think, laptop at
>     the beach, or on a convention floor).

I like the beach, where can I get a laptop that will survive it? I suppose
there's always WAP-phones...

>   - Sender doesn't have to think (hard) about metadata;  we would harvest
>     much of it from the RFC[2]+822 headers.  Those who did want to signal
>     it (e.g., for 'Subject') could do so using the "stock" STX
> representation::
> 
>      Subject: mail-in, content, authoring

This is very interesting, how would we go about doing it?

>   - We could do something reasonable with MIME attachments.

Turn them into CMF 'File's contained within Folderish Mail objects :-)

> Now, if I only had this implemented, I could CC
> "Members.tseaver.proposals@cmf.zope.org" with this mail and get it
> created for me. :)

Hehe, we do this with one of our projects already ;-)

I'd recommend a look at the ZMailIn product, we've used is extensively for this
kind of thing.

However, what I'd like to see in the CMF is a portal_mail tool which would
handle email in and out in it's interface.
I can see an implementation of this involving a seperate ZEO client or thread to
send mails where there are a large number of recipients...
The mail-in side could be covered by borrowing lots fo code for ZMailIn :-)

cheers,

Chris

PS:
> I am not paying much attention to that project (not that it isn't
> important;  just that it is on somebody else's plate).  The fishbowl
> for it is at:

Well, I dropped Brain a mail asking if there was anything I could help with, but
I haven't heard anythign yet :-S