xenForo incoming mail

[masterchief]

This addon would involve forwarding incoming mail via piping to server side script.

• php script processes message text
• interface with xenForo to process tasks
• concept of using piping to server side script essentially presents instantaneous process

anybody interested???

 

[Liam W]

I've been interested in making something like this for a while, just never had the encouragement...

Nor the relevant API's (until I recently discovered they were added to XF 1.4).

What tasks would it process...?

Liam

 

[masterchief]

it would involve the creation of primary module fused with XF core to be able to process incoming email message via server side script

• I would like to start with server side script that parse text from incoming email message
• based upon message text, module performs some function utilizing database.

on my server, I would setup email forwarder to pipe email to server side script anytime message is addressed to MyNewMedia@mydomain.com for example

• script must already exist on the server
• there must exist live process within xenForo to accept results from the script (basically the script is activating module functions)
• so you get realtime performance from piping email to the script rather than resorting to a POP3 service which would require polling a mail queue on regular basis (CRON job?)

Everytime that you added a new video to your youtube channel, you could send email message (another automated task?) to your system addressed to MyNewMedia@mydomain.com where the message being piped to MyYoutubeChannel.php script would
alert the incomingmail module to handle including the video to your configured gallery configuration.

what tasks can you think of??
a customer support ticketing system also comes to mind

~peace

 

[masterchief]

another possibility is perform forum searches via incoming message, responding with email reply providing results
anybody think of other process/tasks that are suitable for this concept?