Thanks for such a variety of solutions! I'll be looking into each one of
them. Please keep 'em coming if anyone has any other ideas...


On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Kyle Banerjee <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Maybe I'm missing something, but why couldn't procmail be used to pipe the
> input into a program that would structure the info however you needed it
> and insert it?
>
> kyle
>
>
> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Cary Gordon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Thought: I have done something similar to this using Drupal and some
> > contributed modules. It shouldn't be difficult.
> >
> > Advice: Try doing it in Drupal.
> >
> > Threat: NULL
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 7:57 AM, scott bacon <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Just curious if anyone has any thoughts about this possibility (I
> already
> > > know it's not practical): Can I automatically forward to a database all
> > > emails sent to a specific email address? I've seen proprietary things
> > like
> > > Email2DB, but is there a simple open source alternative?
> > >
> > >
> > > Background: At MPOW there is an admin site where employees periodically
> > > login and check for unanswered patron emails. Patrons submit a PHP
> email
> > > form, the form data is saved in a SQL database, and the admin site
> > queries
> > > that database, which populates the tables in the admin site. Yes, this
> is
> > > convoluted, but just imagine that I'm not able to change this system to
> > > something more streamlined.
> > >
> > >
> > > This system was made by a previous employee I think in order to
> alleviate
> > > all emails going to an email alias, which creates issues with one email
> > > being answered twice by two different employees.
> > >
> > >
> > > So I would create a simple email address (say, [log in to unmask]) to give to
> > > patrons (vs. pushing them to a site to fill out a PHP form), but I want
> > to
> > > avoid using an email alias that will push all new emails into all alias
> > > members' email boxes. The admin site method then would allows
> loggers-in
> > to
> > > claim new emails and others then to see them as 'read'.
> > >
> > >
> > > Any thoughts, advice, threats?
> > >
> > >
> > > -Scott
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Cary Gordon
> > The Cherry Hill Company
> > http://chillco.com
> >
>