> Yes, understand the cfpop tag would allow one to connect to a pop3 server and > retrieve emails dynamically. But say, an average > user's inbox would have ~800 emails. I'm not sure how efficient this > approach of pulling out ~800 or more emails and then run a > query against it. Am thinking loud here, how about Event Gateway (have never > used it though)? Wouldn't it be a more direct > hence more efficient approach? > app -> "connector" --> event gateway setup and process (search against the > entire inbox for the user for a keyword/phrase) --> > pass results back to app ? > is it something like that?
No, an event gateway wouldn't be any more direct. It would, in fact, be less direct - instead of CF talking to the mail server, something else would have to talk to the mail server. I don't think that searching POP mailboxes from CF is an especially good idea. If possible, I would fetch mail from the mailboxes periodically, and index that using Verity (or Solr or whatever). Or better yet, ditch the POP mailboxes entirely and switch to Google Apps, which is in my opinion better in almost all respects to hosting your own mailserver or using an ISPs server or whatever. Of course, being a Google Apps reseller/implementer/trainer I may be slightly biased. Google mail is easily searched, as you can imagine, and I think it would be pretty easy to get CF to provide an interface for that search if you want it. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more informat ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:326259 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
