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Re: RFH: automated mail processing?

From: Florent Blondeau <fblondeau_at_pingwy.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:33:05 +0100

Markus,

Thanks for your responses, much more precise than mine.

I am very interested in your RA, but I've seen there was no code in
sourceforge CVS ...

I would be very pleased if something like this adapter would arise

Tell me if it is possible to see it shared

Cheers

Florent

Pingwy
27, rue des arènes
49100 Angers



Markus KARG a écrit :
> Florent Blondeau schrieb:
>> Kristian,
>>
>> you're right for the polling if you "cronify". In my case, I don't have
>> scheduled executions of Webtest. It was a simple port that does not make
>> sense a lot in your case.
>> You may have a look at the Connector architecture to solve your problem.
>> I think I've heard that Message Driven Beans could be triggered by a
>> Mail
>> Connector. They have to implement the interface of the connector
>> deployed
>> as a module (RAR : Resource Adapter Archive). I thought there was a
>> sample
>> mail connector, but I can't find it at all...
>> It's a bit blur for me, but maybe someone on this list knows the case
>> better than me
> If you can't finde one, just tell me. I already started writing one
> years ago:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mailra/
>
> Just tell me how urgent you need it. I paused the project until I find
> someone that is willing to test... :-)
>
> Have Fun
> Markus
>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Florent
>> Pingwy
>> 27, rue des arènes
>> 49100 Angers
>>
>>
>> Kristian Rink a écrit :
>>> Florent;
>>>
>>> first off, thanks very much for your message and your hint.
>>>
>>> Am Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:19:12 +0100
>>> schrieb Florent Blondeau <fblondeau_at_pingwy.com>:
>>>
>>>
>>>> For this kind of purpose, we use the great Webtest library
>>>> (http://webtest.canoo.com) as a mail processor.
>>>> We don't use webtest as is, but trigger it from groovy scripts (think
>>>> it could be done with simple java classes
>>>> with a proper Ant builder).
>>>
>>> I haven't so far really dealt with webtest (as usually I am the backend
>>> guy who's not that much in charge for visual stuff) - but how to
>>> "abuse" it for mail processing? It sounds interesting nevertheless,
>>> even though the idea of introducing cron / quartz makes me think about
>>> polling again (which is not really what I want/need; introducing
>>> polling on top of SMTP which would per se allow for "event" based
>>> processing feels somewhat strange)...
>>>
>>> Anway, thanks very much, best regards.
>>> Kristian
>>>
>>>
>
>