Another way to do this would be to have your MTA (ie Sendmail) fire a Perl
script that calls the CF page (via HTTP) when mail to that alias
arrives. No scheduling required, and near-instant action on the email.
...Jay
At 10:10 AM 9/29/2000, you wrote:
>I just want to be able to execute a CF template when my email is
>received on the server, WITHOUT invoking a scheduled task. Howie Hamlin
>says iMS (inFusion Mail Server, see http://www.coolfusion.com) will do
>it, but that's an expensive and time-consuming solution for what should
>take maybe a few lines of code.
>
>Regards,
>
>Karl Simanonok
>
>Original Message:
>============
>
>Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:34:14 CDT
>From: "Eric Dawson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Email Trigger?
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>what did you want to trigger?
>There may be other ways to trigger the action you need.
>
>I don't know how you would receive the pop mail except to schedule
>pickup of
>the mail. Ideas?
>
>Eric
>
>From: Karl Simanonok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Email Trigger?
>Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:55:54 -0700
>
>No, I do not want email sent at a certain time or upon a user action. I
>
>want a Cold Fusion template to be executed when I send email to an email
>
>address. It can be an email account on the same server if that helps
>(you'd think so). I know I can do it by using a scheduled task to check
>for new email at specified intervals, but scheduled tasks are frequently
>
>unreliable and either I'd have to have very short intervals of checking
>or I'd have to be content with waiting (and hoping) for the scheduled
>task to run. So intstead I would like to be able to trigger a CF
>template some other way, using email. Maybe there's a CFX out there for
>
>this purpose, or some obscure CF function that I haven't heard of using
>this way?
>
>Regards,
>
>Karl Simanonok
>
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