Re: Use of a FreeRunner

2013-12-22 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: > Ben, > > > > On 2013-12-23 09:26, Ben Wong wrote: >> >> I'm sure it could; your FreeRunner is a complete computer. >> >> The question is if you have the time (or money to hire someone) to >> write the glue script that will put all the piece

Re: Use of a FreeRunner

2013-12-22 Thread Philip Rhoades
Ben, On 2013-12-23 09:26, Ben Wong wrote: I'm sure it could; your FreeRunner is a complete computer. The question is if you have the time (or money to hire someone) to write the glue script that will put all the pieces together. Let's see, the parts you'll need are: 1. Check your mail account

Re: Use of a FreeRunner

2013-12-22 Thread Ben Wong
I'm sure it could; your FreeRunner is a complete computer. The question is if you have the time (or money to hire someone) to write the glue script that will put all the pieces together. Let's see, the parts you'll need are: 1. Check your mail account (fetchmail or python's imaplib) 2. Do a regex

Re: Use of a FreeRunner

2013-12-21 Thread joerg Reisenweber
On Sat 21 December 2013 12:34:49 Ed Kapitein wrote: > On 12/21/2013 11:58 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote: > > People, > > > > I have not used my FreeRunner for ages and probably should donate it > > someone who can make use of it but a thought occurred to me: It would > > be good to have something that

Re: Use of a FreeRunner

2013-12-21 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Ed Kapitein wrote: > Hi Phil, > > I did the same thing, but It is of limited use, a lot of mail is in HTML > format and hard to convert to SMS. > Also, you need to strip the headers etc. > So you might want to write a script first and run it on real-life mails, >

Re: Use of a FreeRunner

2013-12-21 Thread Ed Kapitein
On 12/21/2013 11:58 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote: People, I have not used my FreeRunner for ages and probably should donate it someone who can make use of it but a thought occurred to me: It would be good to have something that could act like a SMS server eg I have a demand where if an (urgent) e

Use of a FreeRunner

2013-12-21 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, I have not used my FreeRunner for ages and probably should donate it someone who can make use of it but a thought occurred to me: It would be good to have something that could act like a SMS server eg I have a demand where if an (urgent) email comes into a particular account, that th