I see two parts to your project: 1. Retrieving the email from the mail server, and 2. Doing something with the retrieved email messages.
1. You can use and the JavaMail api (possibly something in the Apache Commons?) to retrieve the message. If the messages will be plain text (not MIME), it will be very easy to isolate the message contents. You can then schedule this process using the scheduler service. Be sure and use the latest version of Turbine because there have been some issues with the scheduler in the past. 2. I don't quite understand what you want to do with the messages. Are you going to parse the message and create a file, and allow the users to download the messages in the new file format? If so, why? Do you need to create an adaptor/converter of sorts, or is this going to be a new webmail client? Or maybe an email proxy? Or spam filter? Transaction gateway? These are the things going through my head anyways that might use something like you are asking... If you are not opposed to Linux, and depending on what other things the project is doing, it might be easier to write some shell scripts that plug in to Qmail. This would probably be much faster, since Qmail is lightning-fast. It is performing your due diligence to consider it, anyways. Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Shaun Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 5:15 PM > To: Turbine Users List > Subject: Can Turbine help with this? > > > I've got a little experience of Turbine but I wondered whether > there was any > features built into Turbine which would help me with this development I am > trying to do. > > The problem is I need to write a server to read emails (including > attachments) sent to a particular email address and write them out to a > file, in a format that can be displayed by most bog stndard pcs. I think, > but I haven't tested yet, that a .eml file will be read automatically by > Outlook Express in IE. > > One thing I am thinking of in particular, which I have never used, is the > scheduler. Could this be used to schedule the reading of emails? Is it > easy to set up and use? Also is there any utilities for handling mail > messages? > > Is it do-able with Turbine? Anybody already done it and willing to share > his experience? > > Thanks for any help. > > Regards > > Shaun Campbell > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
