Implimenting a Dropbox with CF

[voluminance]

I am an avid user of Highrise, one of the features that amazes me is the "email dropbox" where you can email a file attachment to your specified email address @highrisehq.com and it is intigrated into the app immidiatly on the backend. Ive searched around for a couple of months to no avail on how to accomplish this with CF or Java? Does anyone do this now? TIA - Aaron

Details on dropbox

[JR__Bob__Dobbs-qSBHQ2 · Accepted solution]

To check an email account use the cfpop tag. Then get the attachments with cffile.

To have this task repeated on a regular basis set up a scheduled task with cfschedule.

cfpop http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Tags_p-q_08.html#2965096

cfschedule
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Tags_r-s_11.html#1843993

[voluminance]

thats a good plan, thanks bob.... since those email addresses wont be very public shouldnt be much to check.

Do you know if cfpop and cffile are very heavy tasks? Like say if I hade one email address per user account and checked them every 5 minutes would that create a ton of overhead?

[JR__Bob__Dobbs-qSBHQ2]

I've never had performance issues with cffile, but haven't used cfpop in production. I'd do some tests in a realistic test environment. If you expect this feature to be used heavily you might consider writing a windows service or daemon, depending on your environment, to do this work instead of using ColdFusion.

[voluminance]

cool, i use cffile alot for importing my xml setting but dont use cfpop i will try this tonight for sure.. I run linux so i was fixin to set up a crazy shell script to do all this on cron or utilize the javamailapi but im going to try this first

have a great day !