527507 - Make it easy to run email_in in a standard Windows environment

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Incoming Email, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Dan Wierenga]

User-Agent:       Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.0; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.01
Build Identifier: 3.4.3

Email_in.pl expects the user to be able to use an MTA to pipe mail to the script via STDIN.  

While this is fine for unix-ish environments where tools like procmail etc. are commonplace, it's more than a bit unwieldy for a Windows environment where things like mboxes and procmail aren't typical.

Ideally email_in.pl should be able to poll a POP/IMAP server for its own mail and process Bugzilla requests from there.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Greg Martyn]

Attachment: PHP script suitable for contrib which can be adapted to fix this bug

Comment 2

[Greg Martyn]

Comment on attachment 439102 [details]
PHP script suitable for contrib which can be adapted to fix this bug

Should be run as a scheduled task. Connects to imap server then pipes the emails to email_in.pl

Comment 3

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Comment on attachment 439102 [details]
PHP script suitable for contrib which can be adapted to fix this bug

Hey Greg. You'll probably want to ask somebody specific for review. Details of the whole development process for Bugzilla are here:

  http://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:Developers

Comment 4

[Frédéric Buclin]

Honestly, we generally tend to drop scripts which are not Perl (several scripts have been removed from the bzr repo recently), and so I don't think a PHP script is appropriate here, even in contrib/.

Comment 5

[Marc Schumann [:Wurblzap]]

Seconding comment 4.

The script is easily ported to Perl, though. Would it be a contrib/ candidate then?

Comment 6

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

(In reply to Marc Schumann [:Wurblzap] from comment #5)
> The script is easily ported to Perl, though. Would it be a contrib/
> candidate then?

  Sure. Sounds reasonable.

Comment 7

[Frédéric Buclin]

Comment on attachment 439102 [details]
PHP script suitable for contrib which can be adapted to fix this bug

As said in comment 4, Bugzilla is a Perl thing, and so we won't take this PHP script as is. But someone can port it to Perl and put it in contrib/.