I was asked today if there's a way to use ColdFusion to basically email a document to an application rather than users having to save attachments to their systems and then upload to a CF application from there.
So you'd email a file from, say, Outlook, with an identifying number in the subject line, and then automatically upload the attachment and otherwise run business logic to associate the file to the correct ID in the application (authenticating based on user's email address). It's easy enough to use CF to upload a file and run business logic, but I'm stuck on the idea of how it's going to parse out this information in the first place. I'm guessing you'd set up an email account to receive such files, then run a task to periodically comb through this account's inbox and somehow "read" the subject lines, from addresses, point to the attachment for upload, then archive the message. Anyone done anything like this or have any idea how you'd approach it? Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346358 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
