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Feature add: Web service for listing email

So, as of this afternoon there is a functional proof-of-concept that exposes the IMAP message list as a web service.

Querying a url (which will likely end up being something like gophermail.umn.edu/recent?range=X) will give you an XML doc that contains the most recent X (in range=X) number of messages for the username that is currently logged into UMN Central Auth Hub in that browser. Likely representation will be something like arrival time, sender, and subject, and a url to jump into viewing that message in Gophermail.

This has been something that's been requested for MyU, among other things. Looks like it will be do-able.

Posted by Brian Hayden on April 10, 2008 4:34 PM |

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Good to hear that Gopher Mail 2.0 will support web service. The University of Wisconsin "My UW-Madison" provides embedded real time email updates. It will be great to have this capability in myU. Also support for mobile devices.

Posted by: Bob Rubinyi | April 11, 2008 2:00 PM

Glad to hear that it'll be useful!

Posted by: Brian Hayden | April 13, 2008 6:59 PM

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