Building an application that recieves emails
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I am currently tasked with building a question and answer faq for one of our top executives. Basic premise is that an employee can post an anonymous question through a web form, which will then save the question and the employee's reply email address to a SQL database and, after this, email our Assistant Chief. To make things easier for our Assistant Chief and to keep him from having to connect to an internal site (all of this is behind our firewall), I would like to build an application that will accept emails from him so he can send answers from his iPhone or any other mobile device he checks his email through. This application would then take his answer and place it with the user's question, email the user the response and then, if the user has marked that the question can be posted to our internal intranet, post the question and answer for all to see. It will also have to remove the user's email address to keep the anonymity. Am I chasing a pipe dream here or is it something that can be done? I need to put together a proposal in two weeks, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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I am currently tasked with building a question and answer faq for one of our top executives. Basic premise is that an employee can post an anonymous question through a web form, which will then save the question and the employee's reply email address to a SQL database and, after this, email our Assistant Chief. To make things easier for our Assistant Chief and to keep him from having to connect to an internal site (all of this is behind our firewall), I would like to build an application that will accept emails from him so he can send answers from his iPhone or any other mobile device he checks his email through. This application would then take his answer and place it with the user's question, email the user the response and then, if the user has marked that the question can be posted to our internal intranet, post the question and answer for all to see. It will also have to remove the user's email address to keep the anonymity. Am I chasing a pipe dream here or is it something that can be done? I need to put together a proposal in two weeks, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
If you need to have an emailing feature as you said, you should get in touch with your networking guys to provide you with a email address which you will then access through the application. Another idea could be to have an admin section in the same website which will be accessible only to your chief. Now, there you can have a gridview/listview or something with the sorted list of messages. On clicking them, you can provide a page similar to the one we see while replying to the post here. Once reply button is clicked, you can save the reply next to question and mail to concerned person through SMTP.
50-50-90 rule: Anytime I have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability I'll get it wrong...!!
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I am currently tasked with building a question and answer faq for one of our top executives. Basic premise is that an employee can post an anonymous question through a web form, which will then save the question and the employee's reply email address to a SQL database and, after this, email our Assistant Chief. To make things easier for our Assistant Chief and to keep him from having to connect to an internal site (all of this is behind our firewall), I would like to build an application that will accept emails from him so he can send answers from his iPhone or any other mobile device he checks his email through. This application would then take his answer and place it with the user's question, email the user the response and then, if the user has marked that the question can be posted to our internal intranet, post the question and answer for all to see. It will also have to remove the user's email address to keep the anonymity. Am I chasing a pipe dream here or is it something that can be done? I need to put together a proposal in two weeks, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Maybe this might help ... A POP3 Client in C# .NET[^] Sounds like a "doable" project. 1) People can enter questions to management 2) Questions are forwarded to management for response 3) Management reponses via email 4) Response is forwarded to the anonymous user and possibly posted on a Intranet server. Sounds cool ... One thing for sure is that you will need a dedicated email account for the website to read/write emails from. Also, make sure that you "whitelist" the users that can respond to this email account, you don't want to process emails about Viagra. You will have to keep some sort of ID in the subject line so that when the response is processed from management, it gets posted to the correct question. This project will keep you busy for a while. :) :thumbsup:
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I am currently tasked with building a question and answer faq for one of our top executives. Basic premise is that an employee can post an anonymous question through a web form, which will then save the question and the employee's reply email address to a SQL database and, after this, email our Assistant Chief. To make things easier for our Assistant Chief and to keep him from having to connect to an internal site (all of this is behind our firewall), I would like to build an application that will accept emails from him so he can send answers from his iPhone or any other mobile device he checks his email through. This application would then take his answer and place it with the user's question, email the user the response and then, if the user has marked that the question can be posted to our internal intranet, post the question and answer for all to see. It will also have to remove the user's email address to keep the anonymity. Am I chasing a pipe dream here or is it something that can be done? I need to put together a proposal in two weeks, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Good ideas...I'm in the process of building on a similar idea. Your feedback will be the grounds for added feature sets.
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modified on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 10:00 AM