Implimenting a Dropbox with CF

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glossen - 29 Nov 2007 15:52 GMT

I am an avid user of Highrise, one of the features that amazes me is the "email
dropbox" where you can email a file attachment to your specified email address
@highrisehq.com and it is intigrated into the app immidiatly on the backend.
Ive searched around for a couple of months to no avail on how to accomplish
this with CF or Java? Does anyone do this now? TIA - Aaron

http://www.highrisehq.com/email

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JR "Bob" Dobbs - 29 Nov 2007 16:17 GMT

To check an email account use the cfpop tag. Then get the attachments with
cffile.

To have this task repeated on a regular basis set up a scheduled task with
cfschedule.

cfpop
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Tags_p-q_08.ht
ml#2965096

cfschedule

http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Tags_r-s_11.ht
ml#1843993

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glossen - 29 Nov 2007 16:26 GMT

thats a good plan, thanks bob.... since those email addresses wont be very
public shouldnt be much to check.

Do you know if cfpop and cffile are very heavy tasks? Like say if I hade one
email address per user account and checked them every 5 minutes would that
create a ton of overhead?

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JR "Bob" Dobbs - 29 Nov 2007 16:30 GMT

I've never had performance issues with cffile, but haven't used cfpop in
production. I'd do some tests in a realistic test environment. If you expect
this feature to be used heavily you might consider writing a windows service or
daemon, depending on your environment, to do this work instead of using
ColdFusion.

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glossen - 29 Nov 2007 16:46 GMT

cool, i use cffile alot for importing my xml setting but dont use cfpop i will
try this tonight for sure.. I run linux so i was fixin to set up a crazy shell
script to do all this on cron or utilize the javamailapi but im going to try
this first

have a great day !

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