[Helma-user] working with mail server and auto email processing

[tobias.schaefer at orf.at]

hi julian

nice coïncidence: i just thought about a simple helma mail server in the last days, mainly for testing purposes.

the setup you describe in fact is hard to configure, uneasy to maintain and difficult to distribute to other helma installations.

i also searched for some libraries but only with small effort so far. some resources i found include

https://aspirin.dev.java.net/
http://www.ericdaugherty.com/java/mailserver

http://www.emailman.com/java/index.html
http://www.roseindia.net/opensource/emailservers.php

james crossed my way, too, but i did not look further into it. ("enterprise" turns me off so easily.)

i still wonder wether javax.mail itself can provide the desired functionalities...

a light-weight smtp server which can receive and parse e-mails (imho, there's no real need for relaying or organising them) would be a valuable addendum to helma's server capabilities.

however, i have yet no idea how it could be implemented.

ciao,
tobi



-----Original Message-----
From: helma-user-bounces at helma.org on behalf of Julian Tree
Sent: Sat 17-Feb-07 01:35
To: Helma User Mailing List
Subject: [Helma-user] working with mail server and auto email processing
 
Does anyone have had experience working with auto email processing in  
Helma?  I want to run a certain process/function when a user send an  
email to a particular email address.

Currently I have this setup with the combination of Postfix,  
Procmail, and PHP script. When an email arrives Postfix hand it to  
Procmail with then pass the message to a PHP script.    It is not  
pretty, and it is error prone.   I am really looking for a more  
integrate solution in Helma.  I have looked at JAMES (Java Apache  
Mail Enterprise Server http://james.apache.org), and wonder if anyone  
have done similar project before who can point me in the right  
direction.


Julian Tree



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