I think the OP wanted to "execute something" based on an email "trigger", i.e. when sending an email to a specific address with, say, the contents of a blog post, and have the system automatically add the post based on the contents of the email, something like that, this is somewhat away from web2py, if this is the case you basically need to configure the web server (and every webserver is somewhat unique) to "pipe" the message to a (python?) script and have the script perform the necessary parsing, etc..
My 2 cents. On Sep 9, 9:14 pm, Yarko Tymciurak <yark...@gmail.com> wrote: > not sure exactly what you are asking - but (for example) to register a user, > you can send a verification email to the user, with a generated URL. Upon > registration you can create a UUID, and on your server, a controller to > accept the UID as a argument, and thus uniquely identify and validate. > > E.g.: user f...@bar.com on registration gets assigned (by your software) a > uuid of 123456; You include a link in their verification email, such > as:http://mysite.net/myapp/verify/registration/123456 > > Then in your controllers, you create a verify.py, with a registration() > function that takes request.args(0) --- the 123456 --- finds it in a user > record (with a query / select), and marks that record as verified. > > Is this all you were asking? > > - Yarko > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Iceberg <iceb...@21cn.com> wrote: > > > On Sep10, 9:05am, Victor <victor.akuj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > hello everyone just a quick question here. I noticed that the trend > > > nowadays is having a client send an email to a specified address, and > > > having an application on the server do something based on the address > > > that it was sent to. Facebook does this with uploads. I just wanted to > > > know how it is done . I understand that this is not necessarily a > > > web2py question, but I would be grateful to get some directions as to > > > where and how I can get more info. I tried google but I dont even know > > > what phrase to use. > > > > Thanks Everyone > > > > Victor > > > With no doubt, this is not a web server question at all. You need to > > setup (and customize) an email server to reactive on special mail. Try > > to learn whatever email server then you will find your clue. That is > > the only direction. > > > Iceberg > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
