On 07/12/2002 23:27, "Gary Lists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On or about 12/7/02 5:16 PM, Barry Wainwright wrote:
> 
>> I used albert for a while about 18 months ago. It works very well, but now I
>> just use Entourage. I can use a rule to catch a message with a particular
>> set of features (such as a keyphrase in the subject/body) and have a handler
>> scritp that analyses the body and carries out certain tasks.
> 
> Cool.  What kinds of things are you doing with it?

Before I had a web interface to my mail server I used to use it to forward
work related mail to me when I was away from home - I could borrow a
computer and send Albert a command to forward all unread work mail to the
address I specified. Now I have web mail access as well as IMAP I don't need
that as much. At work, I used to use a command to get the computer to send
me the current ip address so I could ftp into the machine.

Albert was also used for remote EIMS admin from anywhere in the world.

> 
> I can imagine that would be so great for controlling X10. Have you ever
> played with electrical device control from your Mac?

Often thought about this, but never got round to doing it.

I did set up an old, old Sharp MZ80K to control  lights & sockets by
software though. I even got it to (almost) control a model railway as well.
This would have been in the late 80s.


-- 
Barry



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