On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:20, you wrote: > 1) when you say "the requesting doctor polls", is is straightforward > to set up the server to poll the mailbox, are special software > packages required to process S/MIME email
it's the same process as polling email - in fact, you can use fetchmail or your favourite email client to do it. A python 2-liner can do it for you too. > 2) would this approach scale well, for example if a lab (or data > clearinghouse) had a thousand doctor groups, would the administrative > workload for the lab to maintain such a system be unattractive? Suppose it scales - my path provider is Mayne Health, one of Australias largest pathology service providers. Their customer base is probably more like tens of thousands rather than thousands. Horst _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
