Sorry for the cross-post, but I thought it might be very handy to somehow integrate mailhandler with patterns. As it is now mailhandler is pretty limited to what you can input (no cck for nodes) and it might be interesting to further break it out and allow stuff such as emailing of yaml style text to create nodes. I'm not sure if this is the "plan" of using patterns for easily building out a site, but I figure since you guys are already doing alot of work with intepreting XML, YAML, etc. I'm not the maintainer of mailhandler and more of a themer, but I'm willing to help out and hopefully learn in the process. :-)

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vaish’s picture

vaish commented

This is certainly very interesting idea.

One of our goals is to provide a programming interface to other developers to execute patterns (site configurations). You can see our current work on this here: http://drupal.org/project/configuration.

Configuration framework is still under development but it is supposed to provide exactly what is required for the type of integration you are proposing.

Thanks,
Vaish

ChrisBryant’s picture

ChrisBryant commented
Issue tags: +email, +services, +patterns, +mailhandler, +automation

That's an interesting idea and one that we should pursue. We've planned to integrate with the services module (http://drupal.org/project/services) so that you can manage patterns on Drupal sites remotely from other sites. We haven't tackled that feature yet, but hopefully we can do it soon.

It would almost seem to me that the mailhandler module should become part of the services set of modules, but maybe that would be overkill. All in all it's a good idea to be able to create nodes (and do other fun stuff) by email, although it does raise some security concerns as well. Hopefully the mailhandler module has those concerns addressed appropriately already.