mca rules - what triggers the service-mca to start?

[Ruth Hoffman]

Hello All:
Quick question - Si Chen provided a really nice description of how to
use mca's to sort incoming mail (see jira #OFBIZ-628 - 20/March/06), but
I'm wondering, how does the mca get triggered initially in this case?
Does putting the mca definition in the ofbiz-component.xml file cause
this rule to fire?

If I follow Si's suggestions, I can see the mca is loaded (in the log
file) but, if I put a debug statement on the first line in the
CommonServices.mcaTest.java, it never gets called, so I think maybe the
service is never triggered?

Anything else I need to configure?

TIA
Ruth

[David E Jones-2]

I reviewed this recently to cover it in the new advanced framework  
package. There is a test MCA rule and corresponding service in the  
common component that might be helpful.

You do also need to setup your mail server in the ofbiz-
containers.xml file in addition to what you described, but that's  
really about it.

-David


On Aug 4, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Ruth Hoffman wrote:

> Hello All:
> Quick question - Si Chen provided a really nice description of how  
> to use mca's to sort incoming mail (see jira #OFBIZ-628 - 20/March/
> 06), but I'm wondering, how does the mca get triggered initially in  
> this case? Does putting the mca definition in the ofbiz-
> component.xml file cause this rule to fire?
>
> If I follow Si's suggestions, I can see the mca is loaded (in the  
> log file) but, if I put a debug statement on the first line in the  
> CommonServices.mcaTest.java, it never gets called, so I think maybe  
> the service is never triggered?
>
> Anything else I need to configure?
>
> TIA
> Ruth

[BJ Freeman]

Note: the current JavaMail implementaion is geared to IMAP servers.
if you use a POP3 account you must use the Delete otherwiae you will
continue to get copies of the email in ofbiz.

David E Jones sent the following on 8/4/2006 5:58 PM:

>
> I reviewed this recently to cover it in the new advanced framework
> package. There is a test MCA rule and corresponding service in the
> common component that might be helpful.
>
> You do also need to setup your mail server in the ofbiz-containers.xml
> file in addition to what you described, but that's really about it.
>
> -David
>
>
> On Aug 4, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Ruth Hoffman wrote:
>
>> Hello All:
>> Quick question - Si Chen provided a really nice description of how to
>> use mca's to sort incoming mail (see jira #OFBIZ-628 - 20/March/06),
>> but I'm wondering, how does the mca get triggered initially in this
>> case? Does putting the mca definition in the ofbiz-component.xml file
>> cause this rule to fire?
>>
>> If I follow Si's suggestions, I can see the mca is loaded (in the log
>> file) but, if I put a debug statement on the first line in the
>> CommonServices.mcaTest.java, it never gets called, so I think maybe
>> the service is never triggered?
>>
>> Anything else I need to configure?
>>
>> TIA
>> Ruth
>
>