Rails - Aug 2006 - Receiving email w/ rails... configuration on multiple hosts

Okay, so I have a weblogging app (SimpleLog, http://simplelog.net). I 
want to add a feature where the user can email new posts to the app and 
it will post them.

The problem is, many people use this in many different environments, 
setups, hosts, etc.

Does anyone know of a somewhat common way to get this feature working? I 
don''t mind if only certain users can do this, but I would prefer to
make
it as easy as is possible for people to set up.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
g

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well you could write a program to fetch from a pop3 or imap account and 
let the user enter in the server details and username and password for 
the email account. The problem is that your program will need to run 
outside of the rails environment - or at least be activated from 
outside, because you probably want it to poll the account rather than 
just check it when someone goes on the website.

Ruby has libraries Net::IMAP and Net::POP, which provide all the 
commands for retriving from accounts, but obviously you still need to 
write an admin console so the user can tell the application where to get 
things from.

Garrett Murray wrote:
> Okay, so I have a weblogging app (SimpleLog, http://simplelog.net). I 
> want to add a feature where the user can email new posts to the app and 
> it will post them.
>
> The problem is, many people use this in many different environments, 
> setups, hosts, etc.
>
> Does anyone know of a somewhat common way to get this feature working? I 
> don''t mind if only certain users can do this, but I would prefer
to make
> it as easy as is possible for people to set up.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> g
>
>   
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