[Zope-dev] How to trigger Zope externally (mail)

[Adrian van den Dries]

On February 26, Ross Boylan wrote:
> 1. Incoming mail goes to a pipe, which is a program that processes the
> message.

Use curl or another HTTP client to POST the message to a Zope script.
This seems to be the "idiomatic" way, because authentication occurs at
the request level in the publisher.

> zope is tickled via http: with the name of the file/pipe, and
> processes it from there.

Don't bother with named pipes; just pass the data with a POST.

HTH,

a.

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