Rails - Apr 2007 - Using NET::POP3 and ActionMailer successfully. . .?

Hi all,

I''ve tried all of the following to get email retrieval, parsing, and
saving to the DB working properly in rails:


http://swik.net/Rails/Dave+Naffis+-+Rails,+Ruby,+Randomness/Receiving+Emails+and+Attachments+with+Rails/kqnw

http://www.nabble.com/Follow-Up:-Receiving-Inbound-Email-and-Creating-Data-in-Rails-App-t3538384.html

http://blog.mondragon.cc/articles/2006/12/30/decoding-email-attachments-with-actionmailer-base-receive

http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToReceiveEmailsWithActionMailer

http://www.zakainsworth.com/articles/2006/08/09/receiving-email-in-rails


. . .none of them worked 100%.  For the most part, I''ve been able to
retrieve the files and save them in their entirety locally to disk.
However, if I even think of using ActionMailer to then parse and
handle the file, things go haywire.  I receive "end of file" errors
and all kinds of other things depending on different ''tweaks''.

In my mind it should be as simple as the semi-demi-sorta-pseudo-code
that follows:

class myclass << InheritsFrom
	mail = popchecker(user,pass,server)
	foreach mail do |m|
		#process email and attachments for DB
		#save a copy locally
	end
end


So, my question is, has anyone here successfully incorporated POP3
email support into their Rails apps, and if so how?

FYI, I''d rather handle all mail internally;  not use something like
''getmail'' to pass it from outside.

Thanks in advance!


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Hi there,

I have incoming email processing as part of my app and though I use
IMAP for the interface to fetching email I have successfully used POP as
well. I use backgroundrb for fetching and processing incoming emails.
I chose IMAP because it allows me to look at the header and decide  
whether or not I''d like to
fetch the entire message. With POP you have no choice but to just
download everything serially.

I never thought that trying to hook rails up directly to postfix or  
whatever and having
it spin up rails on every single incoming email would work very well  
at all so I chose the
"pull" method instead where I check mail on an interval with  
backgroundrb.

-Michael
http://javathehutt.blogspot.com

On Apr 17, 2007, at 2:07 PM, gberz3 wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I''ve tried all of the following to get email retrieval, parsing,
and
> saving to the DB working properly in rails:
>
>
> http://swik.net/Rails/Dave+Naffis+-+Rails,+Ruby,+Randomness/ 
> Receiving+Emails+and+Attachments+with+Rails/kqnw
>
> http://www.nabble.com/Follow-Up:-Receiving-Inbound-Email-and- 
> Creating-Data-in-Rails-App-t3538384.html
>
> http://blog.mondragon.cc/articles/2006/12/30/decoding-email- 
> attachments-with-actionmailer-base-receive
>
> http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/ 
> HowToReceiveEmailsWithActionMailer
>
> http://www.zakainsworth.com/articles/2006/08/09/receiving-email-in- 
> rails
>
>
> . . .none of them worked 100%.  For the most part, I''ve been able
to
> retrieve the files and save them in their entirety locally to disk.
> However, if I even think of using ActionMailer to then parse and
> handle the file, things go haywire.  I receive "end of file"
errors
> and all kinds of other things depending on different
''tweaks''.
>
> In my mind it should be as simple as the semi-demi-sorta-pseudo-code
> that follows:
>
> class myclass << InheritsFrom
> 	mail = popchecker(user,pass,server)
> 	foreach mail do |m|
> 		#process email and attachments for DB
> 		#save a copy locally
> 	end
> end
>
>
> So, my question is, has anyone here successfully incorporated POP3
> email support into their Rails apps, and if so how?
>
> FYI, I''d rather handle all mail internally;  not use something
like
> ''getmail'' to pass it from outside.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
> >

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