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



An appropriate tool for having your unix box handle incoming email and act
upon it is a tool called procmail.  I use it heavily to handle incoming
emails from my machines as they boot up or build.

I can send a procmailrc if anyone would like to know more or search on the
web for the many websites dedicated to its use.

Thanks
      kieran

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Monaghan [mailto:alex@xxxxxxx]
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Automating email sending/recieving so house can
tell me whats going on

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...

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