Posted by ChrisBryant on March 13, 2009 at 1:35am
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| Project: | Mailhandler |
| Version: | master |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed (won't fix) |
| Issue tags: | mailhandler, services |
Issue Summary
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.
Comments
#1
An interesting idea.. I had not thought of email as being as relatively sane as web services :)
#2
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.
#3
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?
#4
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.
#5
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.