Thank you  Geert Van Damme

I was initially thinking about the first approach. Because of time
constraint. Any way, It is still to be decided. Other wise is there any SMTP
server which I can specify which database to use for email storing purpose
like oracle. Then I can use the trriging features of the database to achieve
the same kind of functionality.

----- Original Message -----
From: Geert Van Damme <geert.vandamme@D...>
To: Pro_JavaServer_Pages <pro_jsp@p...>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 4:44 AM
Subject: [pro_jsp] RE: About mail server


> hi,
>
> - The first possibility to do this is to use a normal mail server and use
> javamail to periodically check for new mail, read it and put the contents
in
> the database.
>
> - The other (more challenging) approach is to create your own SMTP server.
I
> did a few tests with this and it looks very promising. I'm creating a
system
> where users can upload their new homepages by email like this.
> They can send the pages as an attachment or just send an email in HTML
> format.
> When you start thinking of this, it has lots of possibilities.
>
> Geert Van Damme
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bill TC [mailto:bill@f...]
> > Sent: dinsdag 11 juli 2000 21:06
> > To: Pro_JavaServer_Pages
> > Subject: [pro_jsp] About mail server
> >
> >
> > I need some help on mail. I need to know when a mail comes to the
server.
> > How can I execute some Java Programs. Mainly the Idea is to process the
> > mails and put it in a database.
> > I am using Linux and Tom cat.
> > If you have some other ideas to process the mail.
> > Please let me know.
> > Bill TC
> >
> >
> >
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