Anonymous email posting via Mailhandler

see http://drupal.org/node/226786

That link is partially useful, but I instead was expecting to be able to set up anon/unknown mails to be owned by a default/proxy/daemon user account.
I don't want many new registrations, I want my current email aliases, and those of my groupmates to just be accepted into a grab-bag account ownership.
I tried over-riding the node owner via my commands ... but that's a bit of a problem.

Well, I didn't wanna, but I went ahead and hacked out what I need to get what appears to be working here ...

in mailhandler_authenticat, I added

  } else {
    $node->uid = 0;
    $node->name = 'anonymous';
    $node->title = $node->title . ' (from ' . $fromaddress . ')'; // use the name supplied in email headers
  }
  if (!$from_user) {
    // failed authentication. we will still try to submit anonymously.
    $node->uid = 0;
    $node->name = $fromname; // use the name supplied in email headers
  }
  */
<

and commented out

  /*
  if (!$from_user) {
    // failed authentication. we will still try to submit anonymously.
    $node->uid = 0;
    $node->name = $fromname; // use the name supplied in email headers
  }
  */
</

and

 //mailhandler_switch_user($node->uid);
</

... and it appears to be working now ... I didn't invest much time here, but it seems to have gotten me what I was looking to do.

There is a hook_mailhandler where you can make changes like this before the node/comment is saved. I don't intend native support for this "proxy" user feature

Sweet ... I'll have to explore that a little further. Thanks for the heads up!

Ah, that is so much better. Really nice to get in there without hacking. Thanks for creating the hook!

Also, while I was in there, I realizedthat I just had to give the anonymous user access to create the node type (duh!) I wanted in order to have the external email cascade into Drupal as an anonymous user ... not exactly what I wanted, but definately workable.

I'm interested in the "proxy" feature. How would I modify the hook to allow for this? Any help is appreciated.