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

[Stephan Schmidt]

This would be easy with James, run a seperate James server and
connect to Helma with Java mailets in James. James is
sufficient stable for that (though not easy to embbed)

bye
-stephan

> I could also just have Postfix pass the email to Procmail and then invoke
> helma via commandline, but I was hopping for a intergrated solution where I
> can add/delete/modify email users using some kind of Java API, then I will
> be able to better manipulate the the mail server from within helma.
>
> Julian
>
>
> On Feb 17, 2007, at 3:45 AM, <tobias.schaefer at orf.at>
> <tobias.schaefer at orf.at> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>
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