email forwarding

[acseven]

Hi!

Using yahoo newsgroups there is a nice fecture that I would like to ask you if it is easy to implement in my ASP sit.

in yahoo groups you can send an email to the groups email address, and all subscribers receive it. That is, you can send an email do that address, that the site manages to send it to all registered emails in the newsletter group.

Does anyone know how to do this? thanks!

[Smokie]

Hi

This can be done in ASP, if you know what your doing (i wouldnt say its easy to implement). You would need to have a component installed on your server which can read emails using pop3. You would get it to scan through the mailbox (sent to the group's email address), and look for messages sent to the list and then forward this message to your list of subscribers. The subscribers would be stored in a database and you would simply loop through them and send an email to each one containing the message body and subject from the email which was sent to the group.

[Webforumz Staff]

Yeah, the CDOSYS object could handle it (or some 3rd party ones). The documentation on CDOSYS is pretty heavy reading however.

[Smokie]

Cool, didnt know CDOSYS could read POP3

[u2orange]

Me neither!

u2o

[Webforumz Staff]

ASP.NET can handle getting POP email. There's some free components for doing it from ASP as well:

http://www.zaks.demon.co.uk/code/cpts/pop/

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/092201-1.shtml

I think to use CDOSYS to get your email you need to be running Exchange Server so those might be better.