iMS can do this easily. iMS, for those who have not heard of it, is a mail
server that uses ColdFusion templates for processing. You would not need a
separate mail server nor would you need CFPOP to periodically check and
parse the e-mail (as soon as an e-mail is received at that POP account the
template will be executed). You can set up special processor accounts that
would then call a ColdFusion template to do the processing. This would be a
totally integrated solution.
If you want to see a demo of how a pop address can execute a ColdFusion
template then send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the
message include some stock ticker symbols like:
symbols=allr,ibm
When iMS receives the mail it will call a ColdFusion template that will look
up the stock information on the inputted symbols and send you the results in
an e-mail.
Regards,
Howie Hamlin
--
inFusion Project Manager; On-Line Data Solutions, Inc. (631)737-4668
===================================================
Please vote for iMS in the Most Innovative category here:
*** http://www.sys-con.com/ColdFusion/readerschoice2000/ ***
===================================================
Check out inFusion Mail Server - the world's most configurable email server
*** inFusion Authenticator for IIS is now released! (download from
CoolFusion.com) ***
http://www.teletrends.com and http://www.coolfusion.com
Software and utilities for ColdFusion, iHTML, Website, NTMail
Latest versions available from our web site (inFusion Authenticator version
2.0 for WebSite and NTMail is now released)
----- Original Message -----
From: Leong Yew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 9:55 PM
Subject: Automatically Processing Email in CF
>
> Hi,
>
> I've got an unresolved question regarding e-mail processing. Does anyone
> know how to set up a particular POP3 mailbox so that every time it
receives
> a message a particular ColdFusion script is executed?
>
> Some individuals suggested (at Allaire's discussion forum) the use
> CFSCHEDULE/CFPOP to schedule CF to check POP3 mailbox periodically as the
> only way. I'm not convinced. Besides that unnecessarily uses up system
> resources especially if that mailbox receives only a few messages a day.
If
> I'm on a shared virtual hosting plan is there anyway I can specially
> configure the mail server to monitor for incoming email and then run the
CF
> script?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Leong Yew
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
> Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk
> To Unsubscribe visit
http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or
send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in
the body.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Archives: http://www.eGroups.com/list/cf-talk
To Unsubscribe visit
http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a
message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
