Re: [exim] OT: Extracting information from an email

On 08/05/2008, Steve Dobson <steve@???> wrote:

> I want remote applications to pass information between themselves. The
> data will be in XML format (no-brainer these days). For various reasons
> the communications link between the two system can not be guaranteed, so
> rather than use some direct link protocol I want to send the data via
> email. It may be that some human intermediary will be part of the
> communications chain too. So the system has to cope with data being
> forwarded and the like.

Rather than answer your question, can I suggest an alternative
approach - how about Amazon SQS? It's a reliable message-queue service
'in the sky' designed for exactly the sort of thing you're describing,
with a web services API and toolkits in various languages. Other
services are probably available.

Just a thought...

Peter


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