On Apr 13, 2011, at 4:06 PM, Mike Giles wrote: > > I'm playing around with web2py for the first time on a project that is > using GAE to accept and process inbound email. When mail comes in to > GAE, you need to tell it what piece of code to run in your app.yaml to > handle it: > > - url: /_ah/mail/.+ > script: applications/myapp/modules/incoming.py > login: admin > > So my first question is where should I put the code that will handle > this mail? Is it a module? A controller?
I think you want something like this: - url: /_ah/mail/.+ script: gaehandler.py Create a controller named _ah.py, with a function mail(), and look in request.args(0) for the email address. I think. > > I based my rough prototype on the code from Google (http:// > code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/mail/receivingmail.html), which > obviously has no knowledge of web2py. However, in that code I want to > store some data to the DB, using the model that I've defined in my > db.py file. Unfortunately, I'm getting the "NameError: global name > 'db' is not defined" message when I try to do a query on the db. The > same code works fine if I stick it in the default controller of my > app, so I'm curious what I need to do to make the two worlds connect > (i.e. requests that come in through GAE inbound mail, and the rest of > my app). > > -Mike
