If incoming postings are accepted from any e-mail address then all we need to make e-mail attachments available to laconi.ca and MMS is done. However, based on my yesterday's e-mail test identi.ca only accepted postings from a confirmed address. Didn't check the code, should have. So I'm not proposing a new incoming address for MMS.
Jaakko 2009/7/9, Stefan Caunter <[email protected]>: > 2009/7/9 Jaakko Rajaniemi <[email protected]>: >> It would be nice to be able to send MMS messages with a picture from >> phone >> to laconi.ca. It is possible to send MMS to e-mail address generated for >> posting on laconi.ca. > > The domain MTA initially sees incoming email. > >> It seems that laconi.ca only accepts e-mail postings from a confirmed >> e-mail >> address (?). > > Again, this is the mail server for the domain hosting the laconica > instance. Laconica checks incomingemail address field in > maildaemon.php after the mail comes into the system for delivery. > >> However, there is no e-mail address to confirm on MMS. > > Is another made-up address necessary? Use incomingemail in user table. > Perhaps add boolean for accept_mms in table and check if it's true in > maildaemon.php. > >> Only way >> to make this work is to modify the existing code to accept e-mail >> postings >> also from non-confirmed addresses. > > We cannot ever recommend anything like this. Check in the user table > for the incomingemail and process it properly. > > Stef > >> >> What do other people think about the MMS use case and the fix? >> >> Jaakko >> >> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Craig Andrews <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> I just created this ticket: http://laconi.ca/trac/ticket/1668 >>> >>> Since emails can have attachments, it makes sense to me that with posts >>> by >>> email, email attachments should be attachments to the new dent. I >>> imagine >>> that this would be very useful for mobile device users (cell phones >>> mostly). >>> >>> I have 2 questions: >>> 1) Does anyone see a case where this is a bad idea? >>> 2) I'm considering implementing this myself. Does anyone have any tips >>> or >>> helpful advice regarding attachments and/or the post by email system to >>> help me with my implementation? > -- Lähetetty matkaviestimestäni Jaakko _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev
