[CODE4LIB] Email Forwards to Database

2013-05-08 Thread scott bacon
Just curious if anyone has any thoughts about this possibility (I already know it's not practical): Can I automatically forward to a database all emails sent to a specific email address? I've seen proprietary things like Email2DB, but is there a simple open source alternative? Background: At

Re: [CODE4LIB] Email Forwards to Database

2013-05-08 Thread Mark Pernotto
If a PHP form is being used to post a question, and the action on that form is going to an e-mail, why not change that action to a PHP page to populate the database there? Send out a mail function or something like that to alert employees that a new question/comment has been submitted by a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Email Forwards to Database

2013-05-08 Thread Patrick Berry
Not to needlessly push vendor products, but have you considered LibAnswers from Springshare? We're using it with a similar workflow to what you describe (all emails to a queue, people claim messages and answer them). Pat On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 7:57 AM, scott bacon sdanielba...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Email Forwards to Database

2013-05-08 Thread Cary Gordon
Thought: I have done something similar to this using Drupal and some contributed modules. It shouldn't be difficult. Advice: Try doing it in Drupal. Threat: NULL On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 7:57 AM, scott bacon sdanielba...@gmail.com wrote: Just curious if anyone has any thoughts about this

Re: [CODE4LIB] Email Forwards to Database

2013-05-08 Thread Kyle Banerjee
Maybe I'm missing something, but why couldn't procmail be used to pipe the input into a program that would structure the info however you needed it and insert it? kyle On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: Thought: I have done something similar to this using

Re: [CODE4LIB] Email Forwards to Database

2013-05-08 Thread scott bacon
Thanks for such a variety of solutions! I'll be looking into each one of them. Please keep 'em coming if anyone has any other ideas... On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.comwrote: Maybe I'm missing something, but why couldn't procmail be used to pipe the input

Re: [CODE4LIB] Email Forwards to Database

2013-05-08 Thread Jared Camins-Esakov
Scott, Just curious if anyone has any thoughts about this possibility (I already know it's not practical): Can I automatically forward to a database all emails sent to a specific email address? I've seen proprietary things like Email2DB, but is there a simple open source alternative? So I

Re: [CODE4LIB] Email Forwards to Database

2013-05-08 Thread Judy Hsu
[mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cary Gordon Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 8:20 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Email Forwards to Database Thought: I have done something similar to this using Drupal and some contributed modules. It shouldn't be difficult. Advice: Try