[Seaside] controlling app via email

Pierce Ng pierce at netmemetic.com
Sun Feb 28 02:05:23 UTC 2010


On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 03:00:22PM -0500, sergio_101 wrote:
> one of the backdoor features i have used in some of my past projects
> is the ability to control an app via email..
> 
> can squeak periodically read a pop box or otherwise intercept email
> and do the same type of thing?/

Instead of having your Seaside process poll mailboxes, you can also use
tools like procmail, curl, etc. to write the mail into a filesystem
location as soon as the mail is received, or post said mail to a private
URL that your Seaside process handles, say. More event-driven.




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