[Zope] Zope-mail gateway

[Hannu Krosing]

"Jay, Dylan" wrote:
> 
> I'm not really looking for a way of implementing this now. What I'm trying
> to say is that I think there would be a need for a closer intergration of
> mail and web and zope is a perfect candidate. At the moment email processing
> is not a cross platform buisness. Procmail I think can do smart things with
> email on unix. On NT you might have to write some scripts into the bowels of
> an exchange server. In either case you might want to access the same kinds
> of user info or other databases to process the mail. Wouldn't it be nice if
> you can just email a web page and get a response. Wouldn't it be nice if
> this was enabled by simply installing a Zope product. My point is that I
> don't want to be screwing with .forward files and procmail etc. I want to
> specify that email to this address gets sent to this zope object. In its
> simplest form you could have a mapping to a whole site such that sending a
> mail to Download/Contrib@zope.org gets me that page sent back to me.

When using sendmail, the only way to achieve this is by using '|
zope_proc'
either in .forward or in aliases - you can't do it using _only_ zope.

imho, having zope _replace_ sendmail is an overkill.

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Hannu