just as a follow-up here, i got this to work simply using a combination of
what everyone said. here's what i did:
i added the following to my app.yaml above the handlers: section:
inbound_services:
- mail
under handlers (and for me, below remote_api), i added the following code:
- url: /_ah/mail/.+
script: gaehandler.py
login: admin
i then went followed jonathan's advice and copied router.example.py in the
web2py folder to routes.py, and uncommented (and changed "welcome" to
"init") the following lines:
routers = dict(
# base router
BASE = dict(
default_application = 'init', # used to be 'welcome'
),
)
i created a table in db.py as such:
db.define_table('email',
Field('body', 'string')
)
finally, i went to my init/controllers directory, created _ah.py and put
this inside:
def mail():
# more details here:
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/mail/receivingmail.html
from google.appengine.api.mail import InboundEmailMessage
message = InboundEmailMessage(request.body)
html_bodies = message.bodies('text/html')
for content_type, body in html_bodies:
decoded_html = body.decode()
db.email[0] = dict(body=decoded_html)
that's it -- it works, and the body of the email ends up in my db. i hope
that helps.
matt
