Would it make sense for Mailhandler to live as a sub module of the Services module? It may not be possible with the way it's already built, but something to think about.

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mfb’s picture

mfb
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An interesting idea.. I had not thought of email as being as relatively sane as web services :)

z.stolar’s picture

z.stolar commented

Definitely a nice direction. I guess that a services based solution for retrieving mails from imap/pop servers, would be a worthy candidate successor of mailhandler.

ilo’s picture

ilo commented

I can't see the point on this. Sorry. I'm unable to understand how to build a service on top of an email client. There are already services providers to add/update/delete nodes. How does an e-mail client (this is what Mailhandler is) transforms into a service?

danepowell’s picture

danepowell commented
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I also don't see how this would work. What might be useful is to move the IMAP handling into a separate module- maybe others would find it useful. But I'm not really sure how Services would play into any of this.

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ChrisBryant commented

I was originally excited about the opportunity to be able have more control over Drupal with email by going through the services module. Since this was originally posted, I would agree that it's not something that makes much sense or is really necessary as email isn't a sane web service especially in relation to dealing with authentication.

Thanks for the updates and thoughts.