Mailhander "gotchas"... what are future plans?

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Hello,

I'm using the mailhandler module to allow healthcare professionals to add content to websites via email. Our sites use tags to organize content, so it's necessary that the e-mail submission contains the proper tags. I've played a lot with the 6.x-1.8 release of mailhandler. It works, but there are a few "gotchas". I'd like to know future plans for the module to see if these might be addressed.

Here are the "gotchas".

  • If the e-mail contains HTML content, tags don't work
  • there is no 'free-tagging'. The tag sent in the email must already exist.
  • there must be a space between 'taxonomy:' and '['
  • taxonomy vocabularies are addressed by id (example taxonomy[1]: [myTag]). This isn't intuitive for
    non-technical folks. Why not address it by the vocabulary title? (examply vocabulary[forums]: [myTag])
  • there isn't a way to update existing nodes. It would be nice if the subject of the e-mail matched
    the title of an existing node, the existing node was updated or replaced.

Regards,
Stew

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