From: William Smith <wbsmith83@...>
Date: 2007-04-23T15:10:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Can Ruby read emails?

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I believe you could use the ActionMailer suite as a standalone to do this,
but I second the idea that you'd need to either sanitize the emails or have
some kind of authentication or both/

On 4/23/07, Daniel Martin <martin@snowplow.org> wrote:
>
> david <savatagedg@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> > I know Ruby can do a lot of neat stuff, I was just wondering if someone
> > has found a way to read emails from a gmail account. The reason is I'm
> > hoping to create a system that a user can email an account with a
> > command, and Ruby will read it and exacute that command. Any ideas /
> > suggestions?
>
> My reaction to such a scheme is "GAH! NOOOOOOOO!"
>
> That has nothing to do with reading from gmail, and everything to do
> with executing commands received via email.
>
> (I managed to hose a university account royally after setting up a
> similar system on VMS once)
>
> Please implement some sort of authentication and extensive logging of
> commands received and the results of executing them.  You'll thank
> yourself later.  Also, protect against replay attacks - make sure that
> receiving the same exact email twice won't cause commands to be
> executed twice.
>
> --
> s=%q(  Daniel Martin -- martin@snowplow.org
>        puts "s=%q(#{s})",s.map{|i|i}[1]       )
>        puts "s=%q(#{s})",s.map{|i|i}[1]
>
>

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