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jamesyin 
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Posted: 03 February 2004 at 2:18pm |
is there a way to allow automatic posting of topics through emails?
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 03 February 2004 at 2:36pm |
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There isn't as ASP can't get mail from a mail server without third party expensive components installed on the server.
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jamesyin
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Posted: 03 February 2004 at 3:10pm |
so which 3rd party components allow me to process emails on the web server? does cdonts or cdosys process emails?
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Semikolon
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Posted: 03 February 2004 at 3:44pm |
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you could create a script with for example aspPOP3 from ServerObjects and run it on a computer, make it refresh every 2nd minute and when a new mail arrives, it sends it to the post message script automatically.. this will require hell alot of work.. and knowledge in the subject
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Posted: 03 February 2004 at 6:27pm |
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CDONTS and CDOSYS are smtp components - they allow you to send email only. You'd need a pop3 component like smikilon mentioned. Many webhosts don't allow pop3 components. You'd also have to be careful how you set it up and administer it or you're in for a spamfest.
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Posted: 03 February 2004 at 6:35pm |
 Semikolon wrote:
you could create a script with for example aspPOP3 from ServerObjects and run it on a computer, make it refresh every 2nd minute and when a new mail arrives, it sends it to the post message script automatically.. this will require hell alot of work.. and knowledge in the subject |
Yea ... we did this for one forum.
POP3 components aren't expensive ... most are even free, but itwas very very involved.
- The from address for all posts needed to have added the ID of the message, eg forumname.61645@fourm.domain.com
- You needed a global wild card for that subdomain, eg forum.domain.com so that anything sent to it ended up in the POP3 box
- The POP3 checker had to interface with your online database ... relatiovely easy ... but you had to parse the TO field to get the fourm and message ID to which the reply was addressed, collect the Message Content, parse the FROM address and check that against your Member base (note this means posts can be faked)
- Based on the Message ID, you then insert in the following ways: Either next in line, or after the message they replaied (ie moving posts which got in first). We went for the former where we just tacked the message below the last in the thread.
We made sure that all Email postings needed to be moderated ... to make sure we didn't have some clever person impersonating someone else. Near impossible to stop tho' with somehow using keys/PGP/Sigs in the Email received from the persons Email client.
So ... it is possible ... but quite involved 
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thekiwi
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Posted: 03 February 2004 at 6:39pm |
jamesyin wrote:
so which 3rd party components allow me to process emails on the web server? does cdonts or cdosys process emails?
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If you are keen to explore this check http://www.hotscripts.com/ASP/Scripts_and_Components/Email_S ystems/index.html or do a search on google.
You basically want a POP3 component
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michael
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Posted: 03 February 2004 at 6:53pm |
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If you use SQL Server it has builtin mail capability (depending on the mail server you use). With some wiz you can mail to the "SQL Server" Mail account directly, and it will put it in the database, well that is if you know how to configure it... no web server needed.
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