Posting, replying, and receiving message
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Topic: Posting, replying, and receiving message
Posted By: JonM
Subject: Posting, replying, and receiving message
Date Posted: 16 October 2003 at 9:19am
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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 |
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 16 October 2003 at 9:31am
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It could be done, the biggest problem is in getting the returned email
as ASP can't nativly pick up email. You would need some sort of
component installed on the server that can interface with the SMTP
server to reteive POP 3 email.
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Posted By: JonM
Date Posted: 16 October 2003 at 9:58am
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The environment is a Win2K server with SQL 2K, and the ISP ( http://www.orcsweb.com - 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.... |
Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 16 October 2003 at 11:18am
Sounds good but not many hosts have asppop3 
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