[Zope3-dev] SMTP Server question

[Steve Alexander]

R. David Murray wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Stephan Richter wrote:
> 
>>Shane raised the question today and asked me how I plan to store the data
>>in the ZODB. Obviously there will be a concept of a MailBoxFolder and
>>Mailbox object, but how does the server get to them or know whether they exist?
> 
> 
> Why is it obvious that there would be a MailBoxFolder and a Mailbox
> object?
> 
> When an email comes in to Zope, I think it ought to be "dispatched"
> to a "delivery agent".  The delivery agent might then store it in
> a mailbox in a mailbox folder.  But in general if I'm getting mail
> into Zope, I don't want to just store it, I want to *process* it,
> which may or may not generate new content objects.
> 
> So how about the SMTP server asks for a "maildispatcher" service
> and just hands the message off?  One possible maildispatcher
> service could then be something that uses the mail headers to
> look up a MailBoxFolder/mailbox in a registry.

Another MailDispatcher service implementation would send MailReceived 
events to the EventService.

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Steve Alexander