Request: Complete example.

[laveur]

I would love to start using this. But the problem is I don't know exactly what to once I get a call to my handle method. Could this possibly used to make a very simple email server? Could I find a way to replace say Courier? An example that shows you what to do once you have it set up and running would be awesome.

[j-hernandez]

plus onezo - Need a small SMTP server on an intranet and this seems like it'd be suitable (read: less madness inducing) than setting up one of the usual suspects.

[obrienmd]

I'd love full documentation of what to, sender and body look like. Is body a set of keys and values, an object, etc.? Where do I grab all the fun header items?

[birep]

If we're talking about examples we'd love to see, would this be appropriate for receiving an email with an image attachment, saving the file, and putting an entry in a database?

[j-hernandez]

And wildcard subdomains so I can integrate comments via email into my issue tracker.

[j-hernandez]

What I'm saying is: do my work for me please and thank you.

Just joshin' but yeah a boilerplate example to jump off of would be pretty rad.

[adambard]

I have an example where I just forward the message to another SMTP server (I was proxying Jenkins, which has no STARTTLS support, to a mail server that only supports STARTTLS). Is that the sort of boilerplate you'd want?

The handler just gets the to (list) and from (string) addresses and the body text, you have a lot of freedom to do whatever you want with that.

[j-hernandez]

As good a starting point as any. Gist? Also: noice.

[obrienmd]

By body are you including headers, different body formats and attachments?

Great job on the project!
On May 8, 2012 7:20 PM, "Adam Bard" <
reply@reply.github.com>
wrote:

I have an example where I just forward the message to another SMTP server
(I was proxying Jenkins, which has no STARTTLS support, to a mail server
that only supports STARTTLS). Is that the sort of boilerplate you'd want?

The handler just gets the to (list) and from (string) addresses and the
body text, you have a lot of freedom to do whatever you want with that.

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[adambard]

"""
Proxy smtp to a starttls server with authentication, from a local
connection.
"""
from inbox import Inbox
from smtplib import SMTP

inbox = Inbox()

SMTP_HOST = 'mail.example.com'
SMTP_USERNAME = 'username'
SMTP_PASSWORD = 'password'

@inbox.collate
def handle(to, sender, body):
    """
    Forward a message via an authenticated SMTP connection with
    starttls.
    """
    conn = SMTP(SMTP_HOST, 25, 'localhost')

    conn.starttls()
    conn.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed()
    conn.login(SMTP_USERNAME, SMTP_PASSWORD)
    conn.sendmail(sender, to, body)
    conn.quit()

inbox.serve(address='0.0.0.0', port=4467)

[adambard]

And an example message body

Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 09:57:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: abard@example.com
To: abard@example.com, someoneelse@example.com
Message-ID: <JavaMail.jenkins@example.net>
In-Reply-To: <JavaMail.jenkins@example.net>
References: <JavaMail.jenkins@example.net>
Subject: Jenkins build is back to stable
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Message text goes here.

[j-hernandez]

Cheers! A great starting point, thanks for sharing

[zebozhuang]

How does it call the handle?We know we must call the process_message function, but we can not get it out and call it!

[avinassh]

Any example about receiving emails?