[IRCServices] Email forwarding

Andrew Church achurch at dragonfire.net
Mon Nov 6 07:03:09 PST 2000


>Very late reply but hey...
>
>IMHO the E-Mail Forwarding feature would seriously ROCK!
>Any plans on implementing this?

     Just a quick note on this--I had this on my TODO list since way long
ago, but it turns out it's a pain to implement, mainly because of needing to
either fork and keep track of another process or handle SMTP connections
using select() in the same process, and having to watch resource consumption
in either case.  I don't know what Andrew Kempe's priorities are, but just
keep in mind that it's not something that can be dashed out on the spur of
the moment.

>Quinn
>----------
>> From: Kelmar K. Firesun <kfiresun at ix.netcom.com>
>> To: ircservices at snow.shadowfire.org
>> Subject: Re: [IRCServices] Email forwarding
>> Date: Monday, October 23, 2000 22:32
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Scott Seufert <anarki at flamebait.org>
>> To: <ircservices at snow.shadowfire.org>
>> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 7:01 AM
>> Subject: Re: [IRCServices] Email forwarding
>> 
>> ] ... SNIP ... [
>> 
>> >
>> > sending all the memos in one email would be prefered. Also making the
>time
>> > interval a .conf setting would be wise.
>> >
>> > MEMO2MAIL 15 <---- Minutes _after_ update to send mail.
>> > This type of setting would make it easier for services, the box and the
>> > box's Admin(s). :)
>> >
>> > MAIL_DELAY 120 <--- delay in seconds between batches.
>> > This could be used in the case of a large amount of mail sent. The mail
>> can
>> > be broken down into batches sent, say maybe 800k at a time. This way
>800k
>> is
>> > sent, then 120 seconds later 800k more and so on.
>> >
>> 
>> ] ... SNIP ... [
>> 
>> You might also wish to add a NickServ option that would allow
>> the user to:
>> 
>> 1) Either disable the feature totally
>> 2) Have it only send the e-mail when the user is not on
>>    the IRC Network
>> 3) Have memoserv send the e-mail and keep a copy of the message.
>> 4) Or, have memoserv just send an e-mail and discard the message
>>    afterwards.  (Mabey not a good idea here in some cases though)
>> 
>> On the whole it sounds like an excellent idea,
>> 
>> Bryce Simonds (Kelmar K. Firesun)
>> IRC operator: dream.esper.net
>> 
>> 
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