RE: Automating email sending/recieving so house can tell me whats going on

["Alex Monaghan" <alex@xxxxxxx>]

Not sure about the need for HTML in the email, I'm sure there have been
enough debates on that already :-)

If your prepared to use a *NIX box, then you could simply pipe the output
of
your desired application to mail (or even send directly to sendmail).

You can setup you mail system to pipe specific mail through an
application
or script, so there's no reason why with a little thought you shouldn't
be
able to mail your house email account, turn on the lights etc... via a
script that issues the desired X10 commands and then mail you back a
confirmation.

I used to have a few simple scripts attached to specific email addresses
to
do useful things like reply to an email with a MIME encoded MS Word copy
of
my CV or send availability details etc...

You could no doubt do this with rules in MS Outlook, but that would
require
you to have it logged in or server side rules on an Exchange box.

The Linux (FreeBSD etc...) route you can do on a simple 386 sitting in
the
corner

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve D [mailto:steve@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 04 July 2002 18:55
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Automating email sending/recieving so house can
tell
> me whats going on
>
>
> I am looking for a decent email client which sends both text AND
> html emails
> as one. I have seen email clients like this before and would love to
know
> which are capable of doing this.
> Generally what happens is when you send the html email, it
> prepends a  text
> version in mime before the html, and appends the html as an inline
mime
> attachement, or something like that.
> I need this, as when checking on the house I won't always be able
> to access
> an html capable email client, and text only ones, are as I understand
it
> able to read the mime text as described above, and not have to
> download the
> rest. is this true?
> As far as I know outlook express doesn't send a text version with
> it's html
> emails (not had a look yet).
>
> So are there any clients with this ability that can somehow be
> automated via
> the command line or something else?
>
> Thanks Steve.
>
> PS can be linux or windows (only if I can't find anything for
linux...)
>
>
>
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