>Has anyone done this before (in any language) and can they comment? Don: My blogging service has been doing mail-to-blog stuff for a few years now. It's pretty much vital for photoblogging from a camera phone, since sending an email is one of the few things most phones are optimized to do.
Basically, you need to bear a number of things in mind: (1) Authentication. This usually involves having the user send to a "secret address" or an address containing a username/password. So you'll either need to create post office aliases for each user, or set up a catch-all mailbox and have it capture everything for you. (2) Because of the incredible variety of email apps and configurations out there, you more or less have to resign yourself to letting some poorly-formed content into your app. You can fight it with an unending array of filters (I did, for a long time), but I've found it's ultimately better to just accept that the important thing is the content itself... if it gets too mangled, it can always be edited with the app's native interface. (3) Your app probably accepts (and expects) data that's far richer than you can get out of a typical user with a typical mail client. So you'll need to look at your app and identify a sensible array of defaults for advanced settings that can't be expressed via to, from, subject, and body fields. -- Roger Benningfield work: http://journurl.com/ blog: http://admin.support.journurl.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware: a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:190725 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
