Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Forum Threads fed by Email

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Posted by Benjamin Brink on
Hi Iuri,
I have a limited connection right now, just wanted to chime in to say I'm fairly certain forums package has had that feature. I haven't used it, but OpenACS had it for awhile (if not now).

There should be enough documentation for setting up incoming email in the acs-mail-lite package on head. It contains an aggregate of the oacs-9 ways of handling incoming email, and a new, more general oacs-10 way. Forums has not yet been adjusted to the new way AFAIK.

cheers,
Ben

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Posted by Iuri Sampaio on
Thanks Ben,

I'm still debugging forum pkg, but I haven't found yet. Peharps, I found something nice to contribute!
I'll keep you posted.
Best wishes,
I

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Posted by Iuri Sampaio on
Hi there,

I have implemeted a callback to receive emails, create new forums, new threads, and answer existent threads, based on the email properties (i.e. to, from, subject and body template and content.

I forked forum pkg, adding this new chunk of code, within forums/tcl/forum-callback-procs.tcl and -postgresql.xql. I've added directly within forum pkg core.

My goal was to implement my MVP and test it quickly. I could easily create a new pkg, as an extension of forum's pkg. If we decide this code is worthwhile. It's very small, simple and straight forward.

Many thanks do Dave. I grabbed his original source code from bug-tracker.

Best wishes,
I

## ad_proc -public -callback acs_mail_lite::incoming_email -impl
forums {
{-array:required}
{-package_id ""}
} {
a callback that posts a new forum or thread to a forums instance
} {
upvar $array email

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