Emailing to a server ?

Does anyone have experience/advice/ideas using REBOL [or another scripting language] for automatic email services to work with a server-side bot? I want [authorized] users to be able to directly email to a server-sde email address. A bot-script will then parse the email and add content to Vanilla site [or similar]. Authorization may include appropriate syntax within the email which the Vanilla site admin can est and edit. thanks ./Jason

Hi Jason, Jason> Does anyone have experience/advice/ideas using REBOL [or another scripting Jason> language] for automatic email services to work with a server-side bot? Sure, it's really easy. Jason> I want [authorized] users to be able to directly email to a server-sde email Jason> address. A bot-script will then parse the email and add content to Vanilla site Jason> [or similar]. Authorization may include appropriate syntax within the email Jason> which the Vanilla site admin can est and edit. If you take a look at the script library, there's a section on email; http://www.reboltech.com/library/script-email.html It's really easy to read mails and you get the relevant fields in a rebol object such as mail/from mail/subject etc. I actually put an entire web blogger into my IRC bot and it also periodically checks e-mail for blogs, SMSes bound for IRC and things like that. Regards, Mat.

Hi Jason, << Does anyone have experience/advice/ideas using REBOL [or another scripting language] for automatic email services to work with a server-side bot? I want [authorized] users to be able to directly email to a server-sde email address. A bot-script will then parse the email and add content to Vanilla site [or similar]. Authorization may include appropriate syntax within the email which the Vanilla site admin can est and edit. >> Hardly my area of expertise, and I'm not sure I know exactly what you're after, but I just did a little thing that does something similar. Basically, it's a list server. In this case, there is a config file that tells it what mail addresses to monitor for projects and it polls them periodically. When messages come in, it does some processing work and sends notification messages to project team members. Authorization can be handled a number of ways I imagine. --Gregg

Hi Mat Thanks! So how often do you poll the server check for new messages? Any alternatives to that you've considered? Any thoughts about security issues? ./Jason

> Hardly my area of expertise, and I'm not sure I know exactly what you're > after, but I just did a little thing that does something similar. Basically, > it's a list server. In this case, there is a config file that tells it what > mail addresses to monitor for projects and it polls them periodically. When > messages come in, it does some processing work and sends notification > messages to project team members.