Personally I think that the ability to receive email and process it
automatically would be very useful for many applications. In almost any
application that is sending out email, the question arises, where do replies
go to. It is not always desireable for a human operator to have to process
them.
Example1: Any service which maintains a list of users personal details could
email out a summary periodically, asking them to reply if the details are
all correct, or to log on and edit them if anything has changed. Users that
do not reply or log on are marked inactive.
Example2: A site that is maintaining some sort of community of users with a
common interest [this mailing list would be an example]. Users want to
communicate with one another without necessarily divulging their own email
addresses, to avoid spam. By emailing via an alias given by the site the
email could be forwarded to the desired user [or the whole community] while
concealing the originators true address. Email could also be filtered to
ensure that only mail from genuine members was processed.
Example3: The registration security common at many sites, where your
application details are emailed to you to ensure that someone is not
maliciously signing up in your name. To complete the registration you must
reply to the email.
One of the strengths of Lotus Notes/Domino is the ease with which incoming
mail can be processed or forwarded. I would see this as a major asset if
Turbine could do this.
rgds
Ewan
-----Original Message-----
From: Magnus ?or Torfason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 4:18 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Can Turbine Receive Emails as a SMTP Client?
I believe he was referring to if Turbine could act as a POP3 or IMAP client
itself. So to answer this question (according to my best knowledge).
No, Turbine does not have POP3 or IMAP functionality comparable to the SMTP
functionality available.
To add to that however, I once gave this some thought and believe this would
not be terribly hard, and could actually be pretty cool. A framework where
specific EmailHandlers could be registered and assigned to specific email
adresses. This would give an opportunity for using Turbine as an automated
mail conversion utility. Configuration options could even be emailed to a
running server (I realize the security threat), or, using SOAP, two Turbine
instances could send SOAP messages between them.
That said, I never found any use for it, so this is as far as I went with
this.
Regards,
Magnus Torfason
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 27. agust 2001 09:10
> To: Turbine User
> Subject: Re: Can Turbine Receive Emails as a SMTP Client?
>
>
> "joe black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Though sending mails in Turbine is simple, how can I receive them?
>
> Use an email client, like the mail application you sent the email I'm
> replying to from.
>
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