GroupWise decides it wants to MIME Encode the email, which brings about my first problem. I need to account for multiple MIME Parts. After resolving this my next issue is that the corporate email gateway decides to append a massive disclaimer at the bottom of the email, bloating my item by at least 1000%. So I implemented the ability to cut out disclaimers based on a stripos call. I can have a list of different filters here and it will cut them all out.

After fixing this up and resolving the functional issues I logged this addon as a ticket in the GTD-PHP Trac system.

I have a few further updates to make, including having bulk uploads, custom tags and mail filters.

Cheers, Chris

Being the kind of person who likes to adapt, change, and implement better solutions, particularly for myself, I created a list of features I would like to see in my GTD-PHP installation. One of the first problems I had with the existing system was that it does not support importing Inbox items from a real mail Inbox.

I did some research and came across an existing mail importer, however this required directly piping mail from SMTP into the php script, which I could not do on my host (or would prefer not to do).

I decided to build my own POP3 Importer of Inbox items and decided to learn PHP and imap_open. I built it as an addon to GTD-PHP that could be called to do an import, however I am still going to extend it so that in the GTD-PHP header additional headers can be called (ones that identify if new items have been added to an Inbox so I can get feedback of when somebody mails into that account).

<?php
//Script to insert e-mails into GTD-PHP inbox.
//These are loaded from a pop3 account
//The account info and other options are configured in the config.php file
//$config['addons']['pop3inbox']=array(
//        "link"=>"addons/pop3inbox/import.php",
//        'title'=>"Import POP3 Mail", 'label'=>"Import Inbox",
//        'where'=>'item.php?type=i','when'=>'after',
//        'options'=>array("user"   => 'gtduser',
//                         "pass"   => 'gtdpass',
//                         "server" => 'mail.server.com',
//                         "port"   => '995',
//                         "type"   => '/pop3/ssl/novalidate-cert',
//                         "delete" => true)
//                         );
//Subject becomes title
//From & Body becomes description
$title='Import POP3 Inbox';
include_once 'header.php';
 
$msoptions = $addon['options'];
 
mysql_connect($config['host'],$config['user'],$config['pass']);
mysql_select_db($config['db']);
 
$imap = imap_open("{".$msoptions['server'].":".$msoptions['port'].$msoptions['type']."}INBOX", $msoptions['user'], $msoptions['pass']);
if (!$imap) {
   print_r(imap_errors());
} else {
  $num_msg = imap_num_msg($imap);
  include_once('gtdfuncs.php'); 
  echo "importing ".$num_msg." messages<br>";
  echo "<div class='success'>\n";
  for ($i = $num_msg; $i > 0; $i--)
  {
    // empty vars
    $from = "";
    $subject = "";
    $headers = "";
    $message = "";
 
    $header = imap_headerinfo($imap, $i, 80, 80);
 
    $from = $header->fromaddress;
    $subject = $header->fetchsubject;
    $date    = date('YmdHis', $header->udate);
 
    $message=imap_body($imap, $i);
    $message="From: ".$from."\n\n".$message;
 
    mysql_query("INSERT INTO `".$config['prefix']."items` ( `itemId` , `title` , `description` , `desiredOutcome` )VALUES (NULL , '$subject', '$message', NULL);");
  mysql_query("INSERT INTO `".$config['prefix']."itemstatus` (`itemId`, `dateCreated`, `lastModified`, `dateCompleted`) VALUES (NULL, '".date($config["datemask"])."', NOW(), NULL);");
    mysql_query("INSERT INTO `".$config['prefix']."itemattributes` ( `itemId` , `type` , `isSomeday` , `categoryId` , `contextId` , `timeframeId` , `deadline` , `repeat` , `suppress` , `suppressUntil` )VALUES (NULL , 'i', 'n', '0', '0', '0', NULL , '0', 'n', NULL);");
 
    echo "Imported '".stripslashes(escapeChars($subject)),"' into Inbox<br />\n";
    if ($msoptions['delete'])
      imap_delete($imap, $i);
  }
  echo "</div>";
  if ($msoptions['delete'])
    imap_expunge($imap);
  imap_close($imap);
}
include_once 'footer.php';
?>

Works pretty well at this point. Though I am having problems getting mail into that POP3 account. Will have to work further on that today

Cheers, Chris.

Next things to consider doing will be: kickboards in the kitchen need replacing, carpets upstairs need replacing, a fresh coat of paint – and a more sophisticated choice of colour, stairwell needs to be sanded back and properly varnished. It will probably be another 6 months to a year before any other works can be started, so it may be a while.

Cheers, Chris.

Doing a cable drop in this house was a nightmare. Firstly, it’s on a slab so I couldn’t run cable below the house. Secondly, there are too many beams in the roof that cover cavity space, so I had to drill through about 4-5 inches of timber before reaching the cavity. Thirdly, there is not 1 noggin in the wall, there are two, so I had to do some massive drill bit extension to do the boring. Lastly, a couple of the extension bits I bought SUCKED! When you pull them up they ‘press’ the release mechanism, so I had extension bits in the wall with my spade bit – not fun to get out >:( .

I had never run Network cable myself before (except Coax) so crimping the RJ45 ports was a new experience. Ended up being just as easy as using the Krone tool on the phone frames at work. I figured it would be. Hopefully now that I have moved into my new home-office I can get back to work on my XNA Game Development work.

I will post up some pictures of my office once I have tidied up some of the massive piles of stuff everywhere, and covered the holes in the walls with Network wallplates.

Cheers, Chris