Scripting MailToTheFuture through XML-RPC

Sat, Apr 29, 2000; by Dave Winer.

Background

MailToTheFuture's XML-RPC interface is documented here.

What the script does

First, it deletes all messages in your queue whose subject begins with "test".

Then it adds five test messages, sent in even intervals of 15 minutes, to yourself.

You can see that it adds the messages by looking at the View Messages page on MTTF.

You must be a member of MailToTheFuture.Com to use this feature.

Part of a validation suite

This example has value as part of a validation suite for the client-side of various XML-RPC implementations.

It uses <struct>s but not <array>s. A lot of things have to work for this script to work. It doesn't test everything, but it's a good first step.

It should also, of course, be possible to write a compatible server in any other XML-RPC implementation and I would be happy to run my script against such an implementation.

Download

Frontier users can download the script here.

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