Re: Solution help needed
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1998
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 21761
interpreted = N
texte = At 12:36 PM 12/11/98, charles kline wrote: >As part of a project I am developing, my client wants to be able to >provide email services for the registered users of the system, somewhat >like hotmail does (i think). I want to build the interface with WebCat >giving them the ability to check mail, send mail, etc. from the browser. >Each user will have their own email account. Has anyone tried this? Any >suggestions?Get really comfortable using [TCPConnect] and [TCPSend], then settle in with good copies of RFC 1939 (POP3) and RFC 821 (SMTP) :-)Actually, you probably don't need to worry about any SMTP stuff, because WebCat already has [Sendmail] and Emailer to handle outbound mail for you. The real trick will be getting incoming messages onto your web server. You'll probably have to set up an account on a real mail server for each user and then find a way for WebCat to download the messages when a user logs in. I would guess that POP3 is the best way to do this.You could also do what I think PCS does for the talk list archives and use Eudora running on the web server to drop incoming messages into your database. However, this limits you to only being able to check one POP account.Once you figure out how to get the mail into a WebCat database or wherever, you'll probably need to do some fancy [ListWords] and [GetChars] stuff to pull out the necessary headers for generating replies, displaying messagess to the correct user, etc.-Daveo--------------- Dave MacLeay --+ o----------- Digital Frontier --+ o--------------- 802.253.8612 --+ o--- dave@digitalfrontier.com --+
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At 12:36 PM 12/11/98, charles kline wrote: >As part of a project I am developing, my client wants to be able to >provide email services for the registered users of the system, somewhat >like hotmail does (i think). I want to build the interface with WebCat >giving them the ability to check mail, send mail, etc. from the browser. >Each user will have their own email account. Has anyone tried this? Any >suggestions?Get really comfortable using
[tcpconnect] and
[tcpsend], then settle in with good copies of RFC 1939 (POP3) and RFC 821 (SMTP) :-)Actually, you probably don't need to worry about any SMTP stuff, because WebCat already has
[sendmail] and Emailer to handle outbound mail for you. The real trick will be getting incoming messages onto your web server. You'll probably have to set up an account on a real mail server for each user and then find a way for WebCat to download the messages when a user logs in. I would guess that POP3 is the best way to do this.You could also do what I think PCS does for the
Talk List archives and use Eudora running on the web server to drop incoming messages into your database. However, this limits you to only being able to check one POP account.Once you figure out how to get the mail into a WebCat database or wherever, you'll probably need to do some fancy
[listwords] and
[getchars] stuff to pull out the necessary headers for generating replies, displaying messagess to the correct user, etc.-Daveo--------------- Dave MacLeay --+ o----------- Digital Frontier --+ o--------------- 802.253.8612 --+ o--- dave@digitalfrontier.com --+
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