Re: Possible package...not quite proposed

> A few days ago I posted a note about a Sendmail hack that allows > programmers a way to implement email-based interfaces to their > applications. Well, I'd like to expand on that a bit and let you all give > it a gander to see if there is value in having it in PEAR (some code clean > up would have to occur). > > The package is quite simple. It allows you to implement an arbitrary set > of commands against an application. The application I'm working with, for > example, will eventually have commands to submit a story, approve a > submission, submit a link, disable a user account, etc. I have this > working with Sendmail/Procmail setup and have implemented a fairly simple > help system and a single command to work with an application I'm working > on. I think with a small amount of effort could work with other > MTA's/MDA's as well as with non-web based applications. Interesting. You've got me thinking now about writing a more generic Mail_RPC package. -- Richard Heyes