Okay, that issue is figured out, too. from google.appengine.api.mail import InboundEmailMessage
message = InboundEmailMessage(request.body) Now on to figuring out the actual programming details. Thanks for the quick answers! -Mike On Apr 14, 9:52 am, Mike Giles <[email protected]> wrote: > Yep, I was just about to reply that I had gotten the routing piece of > it to work with a custom routes.py file. So now the request gets sent > to a controller (mail.py) in my app. First step done. > > The question now, which I guess is a mix of Python/GAE/web2py, is how > to take the request object (that now has all sorts of web2py stuff in > it) and crack it open with Google's InboundMailHandler class. In the > GAE world, you subclass IMH and override the receive() function, which > passes you a nice message object to work with. If I can figure out > how to get one of those GAE message objects in this new controller I'd > be golden. > > -Mike > > On Apr 14, 9:42 am, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Thursday, April 14, 2011 6:30:55 AM UTC-4, Mike Giles wrote: > > > > That doesn't seem to work. First, I believe web2py will be looking > > > for an application named _ah to handle the request (versus a controler > > > named _ah in myapp). > > > You can use web2py's URL rewrite functionality to map /_ah/ to a controller > > instead of an app:http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/04#URL-Rewrite > > > Anthony
