Posting, replying, and receiving message

I am working on a mod for enabling the posting, replying, and receiving of messages by email. Has anyone done this before? It requires a lot of filtering (for spam and unauthorized users) and handling of bounced messages but seems to be a possibility. Each separate forum would have its own email address for submitting posts, and sorting the incoming messages into the correct topic (or a default catch-all) depends on a match between subject header.

Since I have been studying the code for just a week or so I wonder if this has any chance of working out, as seen by more experienced modifiers.

--Jon

The environment is a Win2K server with SQL 2K, and the ISP (www.orcsweb.com) also has available ASPMail (also ASPEmail), ASPPOP3, and can run WSH VBS scripts, so I am able to collect email, load it into a SQL table, check for bounced messages and spam etc, then get the messages from valid members for adding in to the forum based on receiving email address. I suspect there will be further complexities as I go along, especially how to change the HTML messages to plain text. I guess this has not been done yet by anyone, but I will advise here if I find anything unusual.

btw, I found two fields and 4 sp's with typos in the name (tblConfigurations.No_of_priavte_msg and tblDateTimeFormat.Seporator, and wwfSpActiveToipcs, wwfSpTopicDetialsAll, wwfSpTopicDetialsInTheLastXX, wwfSpUpdateLasVisit).  A quick look at the 7.5 code shows at least some of these typos are retained (probably for compatibility), but I was wondering if I there would be a problem with fixing them in the SQL & ASP pages....