[JDEV] Inbox mail notification feature

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On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 04:17:39PM +0900, Ganbold wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm new to jabber development and I have some questions.
> I would like to implement inbox mail notification feature
> In my opinion there might be 2 possibilities.
> One is email receiving program (perl script) should notify jabberd using 
> <headlines/> tag about new incoming mail.

That's the solution I took, as My project was
scaled to have few mails on a big jabber server

- Use jabberpy if you're familiar to python,
- Here's a sample code : http://wiki.migniot.com/ZopeHowTos

So the code is basically using :
- procmail to handle mail, and "forward it"
  to the python script (taken from ZMailIn, splits a mail
  into a basic dictionnary)

- Login, send the message (or headlines using an admin login)
  wait a little (for notification to client to occur)
  and close the connection properly

- Finally, in this particular example(wiki), the mail goes
  throughout Zope for my own purposes but python
  is the only base needed to implement it...

 Have a nice try (python, perl or whatever)

> Second possibility is xdb_sql should check new mail by querying time by 
> time from mysql database.
Haven't tried yet, but I always prefer catching the mail on the fly
(right as it comes into the server) rather than using asynchronous
notification

Sincerely,
 Seb

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