[rt-devel] Enhancing mailgate to support commands by mail

[Jesse]

        It's not that enhanced-mailgateway is unmaintained, but that it's not
something I currently have the resources to maintain as a free service to the
public.  While I always appreciate contributed bugfixes and improvements to 
the enhanced mailgateway (or any of RT's code,) I'm not really sure what new 
functionality you're offering.  I based enhanced-mailgate on a very recent 
version of rt-mailgate and the code for the latter hasn't changed 
substantially since then.  For this reason, "Porting" from enhanced-mailgate 
to rt-mailgate is not really a useful service to the community.  It is
my intent to integrate the functionality of enhanced-mailgate into
the core rt-mailgate somewhere down the line, when I have the resources
and the command mode has been better tested and better worked out.

        If you're interested in having me do the development to make 
enhanced-mailgate what you want it to be, or if you're interested in
purchasing support for it, email me privately and we can work something out.)


        -jesse



On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 06:32:58PM +0200, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> We have installed RT and we are planning to use it in prod soon. Sending
> commands by mail would be a BIG plus.
> We have evaluated enh-mailgate which seems broken and unmaintained.
> 
> Our proposal is:
> If we develop them, would you integrate in normal-mailgate the following
> modifications:
> - adding a command-line to enable sending commands in the mail (disabled
> by default)
> - modifying mailgate to grab the user: 	- first step, from the sender
> (not safe, but working)
> 							- second step,
> by using PGP authentication
> - adding command parsing in mailgate (from enh-mailgate)
> - adding command treatment in mailgate (from enh-mailgate)
> 
> All this would be disabled by default, to let mailgate be on the safe
> side.
> We will accept the little risk presented by someone sending mail on the
> behalf of someone else. We really would LOVE this functionality.
> 
> Thanks for any comment.
> -jec
> 
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