Blogging via email

[Chris]

How do we make CF do what blogger.com does in putting up new blog listings
simply by posting an email to a particular adddress?

Is there a way to have CF look for a new email every x minutes or so and
then act upon it?

I know that is a very broad (basic) breakdown of what needs to be done - but
it could be that simple.

Thank you
Chris

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Chris Luksha
Echo Web Services
Making Your Website Resound
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[rogben]

'Is there a way to have CF look for a new email every x minutes or so and
then act upon it?'

Sure... cfschedule.

[mpwoodward *TMM*]

Chris wrote:

> How do we make CF do what blogger.com does in putting up new blog listings
> simply by posting an email to a particular adddress?
>
> Is there a way to have CF look for a new email every x minutes or so and
> then act upon it?
>
> I know that is a very broad (basic) breakdown of what needs to be done - but
> it could be that simple.
>
> Thank you
> Chris
>

CF itself can't receive mail (there was another thread about this
recently) but using cfpop and cfschedule you could have CF retrieve
email from an inbox every few minutes, then parse the contents of the
email and insert the contents into a database or whatever you would need
to do to get the blog content where it needs to be.

Matt

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Matt Woodward
Team Macromedia - ColdFusion

[Chris]

Cfschedule requires you have access to the server yes? My host is not yet
allowing it because he is afraid of what everyone will do with it. :)



--
Chris Luksha
Echo Web Services
Making Your Website Resound
[url]www.echowebservices.com[/url]
"mpwoodward *TMM*" <mpwoodward@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:d38chp$4ns$2@forums.macromedia.com...

> Chris wrote:

>> How do we make CF do what blogger.com does in putting up new blog
>> listings simply by posting an email to a particular adddress?
>>
>> Is there a way to have CF look for a new email every x minutes or so and
>> then act upon it?
>>
>> I know that is a very broad (basic) breakdown of what needs to be done -
>> but it could be that simple.
>>
>> Thank you
>> Chris
>>

>
> CF itself can't receive mail (there was another thread about this
> recently) but using cfpop and cfschedule you could have CF retrieve email
> from an inbox every few minutes, then parse the contents of the email and
> insert the contents into a database or whatever you would need to do to
> get the blog content where it needs to be.
>
> Matt
>
> --
> Matt Woodward
> Team Macromedia - ColdFusion

[rogben]

'Cfschedule requires you have access to the server yes?' No, since it's just a
tag. However, your host can certainly disable it. So if cfschedule is out,
time to fall back on a kludge. Use a scheduler on your desktop to fire up wget
or cURL and have it request your mail-fetcher every X number of minutes.