mailtoplone.base 0.2

basic package for mailtoplone

Overview

basic package for mailtoplone

Authors

Stefan Eletzhofer –

“<stefan dot eletzhofer at inquant de>”

Hans-Peter Locher –

“<hans-peter dot locher at inquant de>”

Copyright (c) 2007-2008 InQuant GmbH – “http://www.inquant.de”

Dependencies

Additional egg dependecies

icalendar dateutil

Contents

Content Types

InBox:

Provides an XMLRPCView to access it’s drop method. Dropping a mailstring ( a plaintext string containing the whole email including envelope), a plone content type Email will be generated, the data field will contain the mailstring.

Email:

File like content type conatining the mailstring inside the data field. View registered for IEmail: emailview ( as standard view ) shows:

• headers Subject, From, To, Cc

• body (prefers text/html parts over text/plain parts)

• attachments (download link)

Adapters

MailDropBox:

Basic adapter, providing a drop method generating an Email out of the dropped mailstring

BlogMailDropBox:

Advanced adapter, creating a news item out of the dropped mailstring.

EventMailDropBox:

Advanced adapter, creating an event out of text/calendar attachments inside the dropped mailstring

Utilities

BaseDropBoxFactory:

Used to find objects providing IMailDropBoxMarker with id=key. Used by the deliver action in mailtoplone.contentrules.

ICalEventFactory:

Taking an icalendar string, this utility creates an ATEvent out of each VEVENT. The implementation supports keywordarguments, passing them to invokeFactory. This implementation correctly imports events exported from plone, as a first approach. It is used by the EventMailDropBox.

MarkerInterfaces

You can use these markerinterfaces (@@manage_interfaces) to mark a folder for mailtoplone (remember to reindex the marked object). Afterwards the folder can be found and delivered mails to.

IMailDropBoxMarker(Interface):

“”” marker interface for mail drop boxes “””

IBlogMailDropBoxMarker(IMailDropBoxMarker):

“”” marker interface for blog mail drop boxes “””

IEventMailDropBoxMarker(IMailDropBoxMarker):

“”” marker interface for event mail drop boxes “””

Scripts

dropemail:

File system python script, to drop a mail to an inbox(url), specify the mail as file or use stdin

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