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-Matt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf Of Dick Applebaum
> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 12:08 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: BLACKSTONE: Software Development Times Article
>
> On Aug 17, 2004, at 8:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > We always welcome ideas, so if you have some for Gateways, we'd love
> > to hear them.��I'm sure if there's demand, there will be enterprising
> > 3rd parties anxious to meet the demand.��In fact, it's already
> > happening :)
> >
> >
>
> If someone hasn't already done it, Email-driven CFCs:
>
> Trigger an event & invoke a CFC when email is received at a specific
> email account
>
> My first CF host provider (iTools, later Zanova) wrote a custom mailer
> (circa 1998) where:
>
> 1) When you defined an email account you could specify that a cfm be
> run when an email was received.
> 2) AIR, the cfm was passed variables containing all the email parts (as
> if a form had been submitted)
>
> This should be easy to implement using cfcs and the event gateway.
>
> I wrote a simple but effective (at the time) app to demo this feature
>
> Send an email to the designated account with a list of stock symbols in
> the body.
>
> my cfm would be triggered, retrieve stock quotes from wherever & send a
> return email
>
> So, if you were away from your computer, you could use your cell phone
> to send the email, and get back stock quotes
>
> But email-driven cfcs offer a lot of possibilities.
>
> They (Zanova) even had the ability to reboot a server with this facility
>
> Dick
>
>
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