If we want to make it possible for WIAB to be usable for e-mail, it seems like it would make sense for *e-mails* sent to u...@mydomain.com show up as *waves* (or replies to waves) for the u...@mydomain.com wave account. That would presumably mean WIAB would need to have an e-mail server in it too (preferably designed such that it can be separated from the wave server). Then when the mydomain.com e-mail server receives an e-mail sent to a given user, it could turn that into something to be passed to the wave server.
I have very limited knowledge of how these things function, but would something like that work? —Zachary “Gamer_Z.” Yaro On 21 June 2013 21:38, Bruno Gonzalez (aka stenyak) <sten...@gmail.com>wrote: > Still working on the email bot... I'm at a point where I can correctly > check for unread emails via IMAP, process their contents, and generate a > new blip per email. > > Customary preview screenshot: http://imgur.com/FI5GTvw > > So far so good. The problem is, the only way I can currently receive email, > is to manually command the bot to check for new emails (i.e. I write > "bot:recv\n" in any wave where the bot is a participant). > > Instead of this, I'd like for the bot to be checking for incoming emails > automatically (for example, once per minute). > > I have absolutely no idea where I should put this functionality, and how. > The thread would periodically check for emails, and suposedly sleep the > rest of the time. Another option is for it to be ran every X seconds (maybe > a cron job?). > I don't know if there's other recommended way to do this. > > At first sight, I could start a thread on the constructor for my RobotAgent > class (which I believe this would only spawn a single thread in the > lifetime of the wiab server), and have it run an infinite loop, with a > "sleep(40s)" after each iteration, or something. > > > Thanks for any hints! > > > -- > Saludos, > Bruno González > > _______________________________________________ > Jabber: stenyak AT gmail.com > http://www.stenyak.com >
