[imp] Generating a Compose message (with content) via script

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Robin Bankhead <horde at headbank.co.uk>:

> Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>
>> Quoting Robin Bankhead <horde at headbank.co.uk>:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was thinking about trying to integrate some IMP actions into our  
>>> existing intranet app, and have a couple of enquiries as to  
>>> whether this is feasible.
>>>
>>> We already use a full horde-webmail install (using auto-login)  
>>> under the same server (at /horde/ via an Apache alias) but the two  
>>> do not currently interact.
>>>
>>> What I would like to be able to do would be to generate a message  
>>> body within our own app and send it to IMP, then opening it in a  
>>> Compose window.  This won't work with a mailto: link because the  
>>> body is too long for the URI limit in some cases.
>>>
>>> So my questions are:
>>>
>>> 1. Is it actually possible to feed the whole message body (plus  
>>> recipient header) to IMP via script in this manner?
>>
>> Not as of now.  This is intentional to prevent abuses of the  
>> compose sending process.
>>
>> And I don't really see any need to add this functionality to the  
>> compose pages.  it might be useful to add an externally-accessible  
>> service that allows mail to be sent via the IMP mailer  
>> configuration.  But this would be an independent action ... and  
>> also doesn't currently exist.
>>
>> michael
>>
>
> Thanks for the reply, Michael.  I can understand the anti-abuse  
> concern, but within our internal setup this is not a concern.  The  
> goal is just to save some RSI on our users when sending boilerplate  
> replies (templates really, with some variables drawn from an  
> incoming message and from our database, then customised manually as  
> needed).
>
> I tried POSTing a form to /imp/dynamic.php with the "to", "subject"  
> and "body" parameters and this worked for a short body, but not a  
> longer one.  Can I ask where in the code the length-limit is applied?
>
> I sense that implementing my own module within horde might be the  
> "proper" approach here, if working at a lower level is required to  
> play in tune with safeguards like the above.  Maybe this would also  
> allow me to do more fancy things I had in mind, such as designating  
> the generated message as a reply to a given message.  Do you agree,  
> or am I still likely to need to hack IMP core to some degree?
>
> Robin Bankhead

This rather sounds like a helpdesk application, and you might want to  
look at Whups instead for this.
-- 
Jan Schneider
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