On 08/05/2008, Steve Dobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want remote applications to pass information between themselves. The > data will be in XML format (no-brainer these days). For various reasons > the communications link between the two system can not be guaranteed, so > rather than use some direct link protocol I want to send the data via > email. It may be that some human intermediary will be part of the > communications chain too. So the system has to cope with data being > forwarded and the like.
Rather than answer your question, can I suggest an alternative approach - how about Amazon SQS? It's a reliable message-queue service 'in the sky' designed for exactly the sort of thing you're describing, with a web services API and toolkits in various languages. Other services are probably available. Just a thought... Peter -- Peter Bowyer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/peeebeee -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
