Document Actions
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`.
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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1. Create the structure
- Create the InBox `globalinbox`
- Create the Folder `webblog`
- Mark `webblog` with `IBlogMailDropBoxMarker` (using @@manage_interfaces)
- Reindex `webblog`
2. Create the content rule
- Event trigger: Object added to this container
- Condition: Email Header
- Action: Deliver
Specify `webblog` as key.
- Action: Delete Object
3. Assign the created rule to the `globalinbox`
4. That's all
This would be sufficient to create the News items. Of course, you're free
to specify content rules for the `webblog` too. For example
to publish news items after they have been added, so anonymous visitors would see them,
or anything you can imagine.
by
Hans-Peter Locher
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last modified
February 6, 2008 - 11:08
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