Posted by Justin Reynolds on January 19, 2009 at 09:49:49:
In Reply to: Re: Comet as a Service posted by Bruno Biancucci on January 19, 2009 at 07:17:38:
i'm doing something similar.
the best solution i found was cometlib. i didn't feel like playing with VB, so i went with TCL instead -- but you should be able to use just about any language, as long as it can use the cometlib DLL -- perl, php, whatever.
in my scenario, when email arrives in a designated mailbox, a field is updated in a comet table. (basically: letting people subscribe/unsubscribe to a mailing list, and flagging their subscription status in comet.) a TCL script is started every X minutes to check for mail; if it finds any, it uses cometlib to manipulate the appropriate fields.
the TCL script could be made into a service, i suppose, but this was really a cometlib experiment more than anything, and it works out reasonably well.
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