> > 1) Reject mailings from all but a few users/addresses (Prevent > > anyone from sending a bogus mail) > A job for POSTERS.LST. Recommend password-protection as well.
That will work for the mailing list, but the intent was to have the user send a message to a standard mailbox. I guess when I rethink this though I could have the user send to the list and make the mailbox that handles the remaining steps a member of the list. Good idea, thanks for making me think. :) > > 3) Copy the attachment to a specific folder on the server > > This is the hard one. Imail doesn't expose any MIME-decoding > functionality to the user. Because of this, your easiest bet will > probably be to use a POP3 component (try www.serverobjects.com to > start; it's said that theirs does this) that polls the primary mailbox > periodically, then uses component methods to strip attachments into > the file system. Once you get a good return code from this, you can > forward the text body of the e-mail to the list (using the security > measures outlined above) and send a message back to the originator. > You should require the drop box to have the same subject-line password > as the list, so you can just check for it and forward the subject line > intact. > > Note that a little VBScript can do all of this. You don't need to use > a full-fledged programming language or anything. I like this idea, I'll check serverobjects.com per your suggestion. I've run across a Perl script set that does this for Sendmail on a Unix box, and I'm sort of trying to duplicate that in iMail/indows. > > 4) Return a confirmation that the process has completed > Once you get (3) working, just running IMAIL1 back to the sender > wouldn't be difficult. True. Thanks for the suggestions. Jeff --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
