Re: Emailing a file to an application

2011-07-28 Thread Pete Ruckelshaus
Yeah, I do this for an app that allows a site admin to email pictures from his iphone to an email address, and then that email address gets culled for image attachments, which are then uploaded. On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote: I would however

Emailing a file to an application

2011-07-27 Thread Shannon Rhodes
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

Re: Emailing a file to an application

2011-07-27 Thread Phillip Vector
Right. Lookup cfpop. It makes a query of your inbox. Then, you perform whatever action that you want based on the subject. On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Shannon Rhodes shan...@rhodesedge.com wrote: I was asked today if there's a way to use ColdFusion to basically email a document to an

Re: Emailing a file to an application

2011-07-27 Thread Wil Genovese
That is the exact process. CFPOP is the tool to use to check the email box. It will let you do most things any normal email client would do such as get headers only, save attachments, delete emails etc. Have a schedule task run the code once every n minutes. Wil Genovese Sr. Web

Re: Emailing a file to an application

2011-07-27 Thread Gerald Guido
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Tags_p-q_08.html#2965096 On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Wil Genovese jugg...@trunkful.com wrote: That is the exact process. CFPOP is the tool to use to check the email box. It will let you do most things any normal email

Re: Emailing a file to an application

2011-07-27 Thread Shannon Rhodes
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Re: Emailing a file to an application

2011-07-27 Thread Russ Michaels
I would however strongly suggest that you only use this for SMALL attachments, if people are going to start sending big attachments then you are going to start having major problems from the users PC/Outlook, the ISP's SMTP server, the receiving mail server. Here are just some of the problems you