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mailtoplone: Integrate emails with plone
This Tutorial applies to:
Plone 3.0.x
This Tutorial is intended for:
Any audience.
Mailtoplone's main purpose is to create plone content from emails. The emails are delivered to plone as plaintext containing the entire email including the envelope. Mailtoplone makes heavy use of the zope 3 component architecture and plone's content rules.
The tutorial explains the approach and shows an example usecase.
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All content on one page (useful for printing, presentation mode etc.)
- Introduction Basic approach how to integrate emails with plone
- Usage Basic usage of mailtoplone
- Setting it up Steps to use mailtoplone with your instance
- Example: Create a blog A simple example is to create a blog, enabling to create blog entries with emails. In the example we want to create News items inside a Folder called `webblog`. The global InBox of the portal(named `globalinbox`) receives the mails. The mails are then checked if their header `Subject` contains `blog`.
- Where to go from here Mailtoplone makes heavy usage of the component architecture, and therefore, like plone itself encourages you to extend it's functionality.
see also:
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Creating Content Rule Conditions and Actions
- This tutorial shows how to create a new type of condition that site administrators can use to construct Content Rules in Plone 3.
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Hans-Peter Locher
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last modified
February 24, 2008 - 02:46
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