Email Redirection
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Archanox Underthorn
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Join date: 20 May 2003
Posts: 168
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08-25-2004 13:40
Hey guys, I was just looking for a suggestion on a good email redirection service to use. I need something I can change the target email addy at a moments notice. Thanks  |
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Francis Chung
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Join date: 22 Sep 2003
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08-25-2004 15:30
I use an in-world one myself. Change a line in a notecard, everything happens automagically.
Kinda handy, because it's waaaayyy to easy to delete a prim (and lose its key) by accident.
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Siobhan Taylor
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Join date: 13 Aug 2003
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08-25-2004 16:26
Just set your mailserver to redirect... what do you use? Someone here will be able to help...
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Grim Lupis
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Join date: 11 Jul 2003
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08-26-2004 08:42
Hey, Arch.
What's your timeline? When do you have to have this?
What kind of volume are we talking about?
Will you need a special feature to "hold" dead emails until the target address is changed, in case the old address dies before the new address can be set?
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Archanox Underthorn
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08-30-2004 15:03
Siobhan: I just tried setting up email forwarding on a new account(an Adelphia account) and for some reason it doesn't wanna work.
It forwards fine to a normal address, like a hotmail one, or another adelphia address. It doesn't seem to want to forward to the SL address.
I asked Adelphia support about this and they told me me that SL doesn't accept forwarded mails, which is wrong, right?
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Archanox Underthorn
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08-30-2004 15:12
Grim: I could pretty much start making use of this as soon as I got it. This is for an autoupdate script for an object with about 400 copies in world and growing. So the traffic would be kinda high, if I kept it "auto" anyway. Thats why I was asking about pay services, since I dont think I'm gonna find a free service or charitable person that would take on that kind of load  As for holding emails, that's not neccesary. |
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Grim Lupis
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Join date: 11 Jul 2003
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08-30-2004 15:12
From: someone Originally posted by Archanox Underthorn
Siobhan: I just tried setting up email forwarding on a new account(an Adelphia account) and for some reason it doesn't wanna work.
It forwards fine to a normal address, like a hotmail one, or another adelphia address. It doesn't seem to want to forward to the SL address.
I asked Adelphia support about this and they told me me that SL doesn't accept forwarded mails, which is wrong, right? Actually, it kinda makes sense. When mail is forwarded via, the To: address doesn't change, only the RCPT TO: header does. It's extremely likely that once the SL to-world SMTP server starts parsing the mail, it only looks at the To: address to determine which object it should be sent to.
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Grim Lupis
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Join date: 11 Jul 2003
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08-30-2004 15:15
From: someone Originally posted by Archanox Underthorn Grim: I could pretty much start making use of this as soon as I got it.
This is for an autoupdate script for an object with about 400 copies in world and growing. So the traffic would be kinda high, if I kept it "auto" anyway. Thats why I was asking about pay services, since I dont think I'm gonna find a free service or charitable person that would take on that kind of load
As for holding emails, that's not neccesary. Well, now that the Olympics are done with, I'll be getting back to work on my RPC server. Although, now that I see what you're trying to do with it, it doesn't fit into my current design, so I'd have to do design a new service for it. Where would the e-mail be coming from? Right now my SMTP-RPC server only accepts connections from the SL SMTP server, so I'd have to build in a back-door for inbound mail.
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Archanox Underthorn
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Join date: 20 May 2003
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08-30-2004 15:22
The email redirection is pretty much just a fail-safe incase my inworld update server gets deleted and it's key changes.
Emails would come from one object in SL, out to an email address somewhere and redirected to the update server's key.
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Grim Lupis
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Join date: 11 Jul 2003
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08-30-2004 15:30
Well, if the email originates in SL then it wouldn't actually require a revamp or redisign of my current architecture, after. Unfortunately, I'm missing a key component of my system (web site) and not sure how long it will take me to develop, as I'm not normally a web site developer. :-/
All of the other pieces except for member management and services management I could probably have done this week, easily.
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Archanox Underthorn
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08-30-2004 15:39
That's cool no rush Lemme know when you're setup. ^^ |