Comments on: Using Drupal’s mailhandler module

By: jamiegrove

jamiegrove — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:39:34 +0000

@TJ You should be able to do it with CCK. This thread has a bit of code that explains (about half way down). I don’t know if it will work, but you might want to try putting a note on the thread.

http://drupal.org/node/141211

By: TJ

TJ — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:46:18 +0000

I’m working on a way to send an email to my website with location information (either city/state, an address, or even a geotagged photo), and I’d like to use the mailhandler. For this phase, all I need it to do is read the put the content into the correct fields of a custom content type. Something like:

City: Los Angeles
State: CA

Since the module can hangle Taxonomy as a separate field, I’m guessing this is pretty easy, but I wonder if it will do it automatically per content type or if it will require a hack in order to accept custom fields.

If anyone has knowledge on this, I’d really appreciate some advice.

Thanks for your help!
TJ

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By: jamiegrove

jamiegrove — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:35:37 +0000

Good deal! (make sure to update your forum post on drupal.org as I know folks are probably checking that)

Format 3 works, but I believe the message itself needs to have a MIME type of HTML and not be plain-text.

By: Seige

Seige — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:16:51 +0000

I turned off TinyMCE ! The commands type: page and status: 1 are working now.
Everything works now except the format:3 command to allow complete HTML in the posts.

I might be wrong in the understanding of it though.

I am trying to email this :

this is (tag strong) strong (end tag strong).

However, instead of bolding the word, it imports it exactly like this.

By: jamiegrove

jamiegrove — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:25:11 +0000

FYI… I zapped all the dupe comments.

If there is nothing special in terms of modules, I think your reasoning on the formatting of the commands may be sound. What about turning off TinyMCE?

By: Seige

Seige — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:07:33 +0000

Allright, I had this initially
type: page
status: 1
format: 3

which I changed to

type: page
status: 1
format: 3

Since, the type,status and format commands are not working at all, there seems to be a problem with the format in which i am giving these commands.

As far as modules are concerned, I am not using anything extraordinary.However, I do have TinyMCE enabled.

By: jamiegrove

jamiegrove — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:58:03 +0000

Do you have an extra carriage return between each command? If so, try removing the extra empty line.

The only other thing I can think of is disabling all non-standard modules to see if you have a conflict.

If none of that works, I’m out of suggestions.

By: Seige

Seige — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:54:55 +0000

Yeah, I do have it now. If you dont have it , then the module just appends them to the content.

Here is exactly what i have in that textarea:

type: page

status: 1

format: 3

By: jamiegrove

jamiegrove — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:52:50 +0000

@Seige Do you have a space between type: and page? Have you tried it both with and without?

I was going to recommend this thread on drupal.org but I see you are already there.

http://drupal.org/node/153117

By: Seige

Seige — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:50:38 +0000

Allright, I figured out something more.I have opened an issue for this on the module page on drupal as well and there someone suggested that enabling of “blog” module which i had not done.

So i enable the module and try it again. This time my mail gets transformed into a node with type “blog entry” and i can edit it too.
So atleast whatever content i email, a node is created for that which is editable.

Now, I dont want to create a “blog entry” node. I want a page node to be created of every page i email. I have type: page in my commands list. Any further suggestions on how to get a node of type “page”.