FW: XML Mail

[Borden, Jonathan]

Clark Evans wrote:
>
>
> Are there any parsers that will accept 'mail' and
> generate corresponding XML?

	XMTP is an XML <-> MIME mapping which transforms SMTP messages into XML.
The mapping is described at http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net/documents/xmtp.htm

	If you send a message to test-xmtp at jabr.ne.mediaone.net it will
autorespond, inserting the XMLized message (headers and body) in the
response body. This works with binary attachments as well.

	If you send a message to XMTP-BOARD at jabr.ne.mediaone.net you can see it via
XML/XSL by browsing:
http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net/xmtp/listxmtp.asp?User=xmtp-board (this uses
IE5b2 XSL).

Valid HTML can't be left alone because this is not required to be well
formed XML hence HTML is escaped. XML is left alone if the
content-type=text/xml

Enjoy,

Jonathan Borden
http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net


>
> I would imagine putting this in /etc/aliases :
>
> xml-files:   "!/opt/xmlmail/bin/rewrite ... "
>
>
> The rewrite program would:
>
> 0) Transform reserved characters > < & into
>    &gt; &lt; &amp; and handle other trivial
>    conversions such as this.
>
> 1) Transform the 'headers' into XML structure.
>    <mail-header
>       sender="clark.evans at manhattanproject.com"
>       to.1="xml-dev at ic.ac.uk"
>       etc.
>    >
>
> 2) Leave valid XML/HTML alone if possible.
>
> 3) Add a <mail> </mail> and <p> </p> for non-xml
>    non-html mail.
>
> etc.
>
> Anything like this monster?
>
> Thanks tons!
>
> Clark
>



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