Using email to fill a database

Projects Interfacing w/ Software on the Computer
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Hello,

I am looking for a way to use an email address to add content to a database. If you ever opened a Tumblr, you certainly noticed they provide an unique email where you can send posts to, that will then be automatically published on your blog. No need to use an interterface.

Do you know any way to do that ? I would like to send emails that will be sent through the arduino to a thermal printer to be printed.

Thank you
Elliot

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I'm not sure what you are asking.

Do you mean that the Arduino will send an email to a PC and you need a PC program to receive that email and print its contents?

...R

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Hi,
no, user will send an email which content will be printed by a thermal printer through the arduino. But my question mainly is to interface an email with a database. How to input the content of an email to a database, just as the tumblr "mail to publish" system works.

Thanks !

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How to input the content of an email to a database

When you send a PUT or POST request to a server, where a database might live, the request has already separated the data.

If you are getting an email, somehow, somewhere, some script needs to scrape the e-mail to get the content of interest. As you have not identified where (like the server that tumblr runs on), how (what script is going to do the work), or any details of what is in the e-mail, you're pretty much on your own.

And, I don't see that the Arduino has a role, here.

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elliotgazouille:
Hi,
no, user will send an email which content will be printed by a thermal printer through the arduino. But my question mainly is to interface an email with a database. How to input the content of an email to a database, just as the tumblr "mail to publish" system works.

Thanks !

You seem to be an expert in writing stuff that I find very confusing. Let's try and split things out

"user will send an email" - what will receive the email? What sort of content will it have - give an example

"which content will be printed by a thermal printer through the arduino" How will the email content get to the Arduino? What thermal printer will you use? Can it work with an Arduino?

" interface an email with a database. How to input the content of an email to a database," What database program? What computer is it running on (as it sure won't be an Arduino)? How will the email get to that computer?

...R