Am 15.07.2013 23:12, schrieb Tobias Boege: > On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: >> Thanks for your advice, Randall. >> >> Am 15.07.2013 17:16, schrieb Randall Morgan: >>> Is your email pop3, IMAP, MAPI, or webmail? The way you approach this >>> depends on the target system. >> >> It is pop3 and it is my own vserver for my firm's website. >> >>> >>> IMHO pop3 would be the easiest. There you would only need to access your >>> mail account to download the emails for processing. Gambas has PDF >> >> Yes, that would be the precise question. My idea was to use the contact >> form plugin from the website, making another contact form which sends >> the results to another email address (e. g. application@... instead of >> info@...) and read the emails from that address. >> >> So it all boils down to: how can I read the emails - say once a minute - >> and place them somewhere where a script of mine - say Gambas - has >> access and reads them. And how to read them. >> >> I thought of leaving everything on the remote server, but it might as >> well be read from our local server in my firm and processed there. The >> latter might be the better way, as it is done so for the ordinary >> contact forms now (they are waiting for my email client to fetch them >> from the remote server via pop3, so I can fetch them even now when I'm >> in holidays, with my laptop). I'd just need a script to do with the >> other ones in regular intervals. >> >>> generation capabilities so that is not an issue. Another way to handle this >>> would be to setup a GAMABS SMTP service and have the emails forwarded to >>> that service. Then the app could be written to process any email that >>> arrived in the inbox. >> >> Yes, I saw there's an smtp library for Gambas, but I thought it might be >> easier the other way round. >> >>> >>> As for an easy way.... Well, easy is a qualitative term and so the ease of >>> development would depend on the programmer's experience and abilities. If >>> you're using webmail and the front end is something like Squirrel Mail, >>> then you have a nice table arrangement that can be easily parsed with >>> GAMBAS. But if your mail account is something like Yahoo or Google I think >>> a web parsing framework such as those used with Java or Python would ease >>> development. >> >> Neither nor, there's qmail on the server. That's it. >> >>> >>> A lot of my data collection tasks involve writing code in different >>> languages. >> >> I wouldn't mind calling some other script from the Gambas one or vice-versa. >> >> >>> For example, One of my apps is a simple bash script that takes >>> forms submitted as pdfs, and processes them using python and then stores >>> the results in a MySQL DB which has some stored procedures for final >>> processing. Then a cron script runs one every 5 minutes to get any new rows >>> from the DB and place them in a queue to be reviewed by staff. The staff >>> app then calls a php script that connects to a asterisk system if the staff >>> needs to contact the client, and dials the clients number. Sadly, the staff >>> review portion was not written in Gambas but in C++/Qt. >> >> Sounds rather clever, but I hope my idea won't become so extensive :-) >> >>> >>> Don't get bogged down into thinking that if you use GAMBAS for a portion of >>> the app that you must use it for the whole app. You can create powerful >>> systems by combining the resources found other tools. Gambas and most Linux >>> software is designed to allow this kind of inter-connect via pipes, >>> sockets, and files. So pick the tools that make each part of the process >>> easiest and you development will be simplified. >> >> Yes, that was the base of my idea. I started inventing a whole-in-one >> app with Gambas: contact form, control, pdf, everything. Then I thought >> there is a nice contact form plugin already, so why inventing the wheel? >> >> Ok, let's get back to the point: reading an email (pop3 from the remote >> server to the local one) and placing it somewhere to let a Gambas app >> process it, how should I start? Where can I find the emails? Isn't there >> a mail command I can use from a bash script? After all, there are >> scripts on every system that send mails to root. And where are these >> mails stored then? When I know where, I can examine the files and find a >> way to process them in Gambas. >> > > So we have two options, right? > > a) Run a Gambas CGI script on the webserver which receives the user input > via HTTP (GET/POST) from the HTML form. > b) Have a Gambas daemon on your local computer which checks regularly for > new mails dropped by an external program. Or even better: Have a Gambas > program which is fed with incoming mail whenever it arrives. > > It seems that a) is not the topic here. So, for b) you need a mail daemon. I > personally use fetchmail for all my mail (IMAP). It also understands POP3, > according to the manpages. And the best thing is: it has the "-m" switch > which lets you give it a program (Mail Delivery Agent) to which it will pipe > its mail. The MDA shall sort/distribute mail correctly but you can > equivalently well use it to call any program with every incoming mail being > piped to it. You can then examine the mail and do whatever you want. > > I use fetchmail for around 3 years now and the system didn't fail once - or > it was so unimportant that I didn't notice. The only issue you have is to > install and configure fetchmail correctly. > > I just tested fetchmail's -m option with a self-written program and it works > as expected. > > Regards, > Tobi >
Thank you very much for your ideas. a) could be a topic, and will, when I proceed to the next step, but it could be avoided until then Thanks for the sendmail tipp, will have a look at it later. Rolf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
