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ericnute
Adept
13 years ago

Creating a post with an email

I am trying to implement a feature for internal/employee users of forums. Basically, I want to make it possible for an employee to send a question to an internal email address and then that question gets posted as a new post.

 

From there, the "Reply by Email" feature should take over, so that answers get appropriately associated with the person doing the answering.

 

Basically, I want to make an old school Mailing List / Network News gateway, but using Exchange and Lithium.

 

Anyone try this?

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  • xorrkaz's avatar
    xorrkaz
    Genius
    13 years ago

    Yes, actually!  We are building out the requirements now.  Essentially, I'm thinking of using board_id@community.domain.com as the email address.  That will be intercepted by my server and a script that will parse the email and use the REST API to add a new thread to board_id.  If board_id does not exist, the script will send a reply back to the user letting them know that the board is unknown.  I'm not thinking of doing two-factor confirmation here since this is an internal thing.  We may have to change that depending on what spamage we see.

     

    The script will be hosted on a UNIX platform, and community.domain.com will have an MX record that points to this UNIX server.

  • xorrkaz's avatar
    xorrkaz
    Genius
    13 years ago

    Sure.  It may be a while before I have it done, though.

  • ac's avatar
    ac
    Champion
    10 years ago

    Hi xorrkaz

     

    Sorry to necro a 2 year old thread, but I found your post through search, and I was wondering if you have finished this project? If so, would you be willing to share what you've done with the community? Email to initial post is also something we are very interested in doing.

     

    Thanks,

    ac