Node2email is really pretty useless, IMHO. If you want to mail a pointer to a node, or even a node, to yourself, or another person, you know where to find your mailer. Indeed, write a script to do it, if that's not easy enough. We make it rather easy to do that. If you want the raw form of the node, use the xml view, if you want the cooked form, use the print view, and parse it out.

As to your email system, the best way to do it is probably simple email forwarding -- if mail comes to an unknown address @perlmonks.org, check if it's a user. If it is, forward it to the address they've chosen to forward to, if any, or bounce it if none.

However, I don't see the neccisity -- if the monk wants email, they'll put the address on their homenode. Plenty, including me, do. It's just one more thing to load the server, and potentialy be buggy. It's also something that doesn't fit in well with our current paradigm (IE the Everything Engine), as it invoves lots of external scripts and configuration files, not nodes.

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In reply to Re: Whatever happened to Node2Email? by theorbtwo
in thread Whatever happened to Node2Email? by xenchu

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