Hey guys,
you may be able to help with ideas for this one.
We want to be able to email an alias & have those e-mails automatically imported & shown on the front end of matrix.
Anyone got any ideas on how to do this? or has anyone done it previously?
Had thought of somehow exporting them as xml or something along those lines.
What would be nice is if we could get the backend view of a users e-mails on the front end, that way we could just e-mail the user & it would automatically showup.
regards,
Will
You would need to write a pipe script that your mail server delivers mail to. That script would then need to create the appropriate asset in Matrix.
I don't believe its been done before – its something that require some thought, as you need to be absolutely paranoid about the source data (i.e. you don't want a malicious email to be capable of damaging your Matrix install).
[quote]You would need to write a pipe script that your mail server delivers mail to. That script would then need to create the appropriate asset in Matrix.
I don’t believe its been done before – its something that require some thought, as you need to be absolutely paranoid about the source data (i.e. you don’t want a malicious email to be capable of damaging your Matrix install).
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Yeah this is true, on that particular server we have sendmail set up as our mta. The Matrix system is not accesible from outside at all (which is good) but still you wouldn’t want anyone accidently e-mailing a command through anyway. We run squirrelmail on that server as well, I had thought of embedding it in somehow but it would mean that the information was not searchable from within Matrix.
hmm will have to investiage on the command line side of things how to create a news asset & add the data in. Since the e-mails would be coming from different addresses (and different dates) I would use that information as a distinct asset name.
[quote]hmm will have to investiage on the command line side of things how to create a news asset & add the data in. Since the e-mails would be coming from different addresses (and different dates) I would use that information as a distinct asset name.
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Could you perhaps give us more information about what you’re trying to achieve? There may be other ways of getting the same result.
[quote]Could you perhaps give us more information about what you’re trying to achieve? There may be other ways of getting the same result.
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A group of support staff e-mail system changes everyday to an alias. Nothing is done with this information. We want it displayed on the front end, but we want the content searchable & if possible to be in an asset listing that shows a weeks worth of them.
[quote]A group of support staff e-mail system changes everyday to an alias. Nothing is done with this information. We want it displayed on the front end, but we want the content searchable & if possible to be in an asset listing that shows a weeks worth of them.
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Would it not be possible to replace the email with a web-based form? That would be far simpler (and more secure) to implement.
Thats what I am thinking at this stage, but I was interested to see if anything with e-mail could be done.
[quote]Would it not be possible to replace the email with a web-based form? That would be far simpler (and more secure) to implement.
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[quote]Thats what I am thinking at this stage, but I was interested to see if anything with e-mail could be done.
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It certainly could be done, but I suspect it may be far more time-consuming/expensive. 
Yep insead I think an asset builder will do my job pretty well, except I can't get the builder to show a body & a summary form box when adding it
[quote]It certainly could be done, but I suspect it may be far more time-consuming/expensive.
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oops looks like body is something specified after asset creation (thats fine) is the summary the same? if so it may have to be a 2 step process, add the asset & then edit it 
You can tweak the news asset to show the Summary and/or Body on the create screen. I've been meaning to expose these for a while in the base code. Drop me an email (avi dot miller at squiz dot net) and I'll let you know what to change.
Thanks Avi, have done
[quote]You can tweak the news asset to show the Summary and/or Body on the create screen. I’ve been meaning to expose these for a while in the base code. Drop me an email (avi dot miller at squiz dot net) and I’ll let you know what to change.
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Sorry, I've been travelling – I have your email and will reply tomorrow.
Np thanks for taking the time to respond.
[quote]Sorry, I’ve been travelling – I have your email and will reply tomorrow.
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Just a note that I've updated the 3.8 and Development branches with this change, so that the News item will always show its Summary and Body attributes on the create screen.