Well, the plans for the future term was to have a complete email server, have the bot be able to access emails for all the wave/email addresses, have him convert them to waves for each user and viceversa (waves to email), etc. Essentially, to convert wiab into a hybrid email/wave server/client.
But I don't know if I can have the time for that. So my immediate goal is to focus on having a way to run *this* mailing list in wiab. Like they say in motorsports, "to finish first, first you must finish". Other advanced features are left in a second plane until the most basic functionality is working. So... about that permanent email client/thread/cron...? :-) On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Zachary “Gamer_Z.” Yaro <zmy...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 > > > -- Saludos, Bruno González _______________________________________________ Jabber: stenyak AT gmail.com http://www.stenyak.com
