Mailhandler Mailbox Code

Dane,
I am logged in as admin. First I select the "Structure" menu bar item. The page presented contains 9 items to select and includes a description of each item. The items are Blocks, Block Exporter, Content types, Feeds importers, Mailhandler Mailboxes, Menus, Pages, Stylizer, and Taxonomy.

On that page I select Mailhandler Mailboxes it goes to a page with the URL:
#overlay=%3Fq%3Dadmin%252Fstructure%252Fmailhandler

This page Storage and Sort by dropdowns, a search box and a couple of other items. At the top there are two link words: +Add and +Import

I select "Import" and the page that contains the textbox is presented with the URL:
#overlay=%3Fq%3Dadmin%252Fstructure%252Fmailhandler%252Fimport

There is a line "Import code >> Settings"
The textbox is below this line with a heading "Mailhandler Mailbox code*"
I can type multiple lines in this box.
Below the box are "Continue" and "Cancel" buttons.

When I select "Continue" the textbox border turns red and the following message is displayed above the textbox:
"Unable to get an import from the code. Errors reported: No item found."

The URL is now:
#overlay=%3Fq%3Dadmin%252Fstructure%252Fmailhandler%252Fimport%26render%3Doverlay

Oh, I have read the README and INSTALL files and could not find any hints. I also Googled "Mailhandler" and checked the plugin download site but couldn't find any information regarding this issue.

Thanks again for taking time to look at this,
Paul Olson

Hi Dane,

You ask a good question. Your answer and then your question made me think. And my conclusion is that I am in the wrong place to do what I was intending.

Don't laugh, but what I am trying to do is "import" a mail message.

So here is my next question. I set a mail box up and then selected the "Test and save" button. It reported that it successfully connected to the mailbox and that the email address was "successfully updated." I took that to mean that it is all working and all I have to do is "import" the mail messages.

I am now at the point where I realize I have to run an "importer" (see, there's that word again). I have Feeds 7.x-2.0-alpha3 installed and configured (I assume correctly) but I didn't go beyond that. I guess I have some more research to do to set up or invoke the feeds code to retrieve emails.

I do have one concern. Since I am now running Drupal 7.2 and these modules are alpha or beta versions I wonder if they are ready to implement in production. What do you think?

I was looking for a simple cookbook way of getting this thing running, but maybe I just haven't dug deep enough yet. If you have any suggestions or simple instructions I would welcome that help. If it is beyond what you have time for, I appreciate your responses.

If I get this thing working I will probably try to write something up to describe how I did it. I would certainly be willing to share that for others to read. Could you recommend the best way for me to get a document to you?

Thanks,
Paul Olson