Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:18:32 -0400 (EDT) A. Khattri wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Nick Rout wrote: > > > Thirdly you could use it to do something like home control > > > > To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject:Warm up > > > > TURNON AIR_CONDITIONING 22C > > Scary. > > > Plus some authentication!! >

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email

2005-04-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 21:18 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Nick Rout wrote: > > > Thirdly you could use it to do something like home control > > > > To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject:Warm up > > > > TURNON AIR_CONDITIONING 22C > > Scary. if implemented Well, that could be a possi

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email

2005-04-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Nick Rout wrote: > Thirdly you could use it to do something like home control > > To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:Warm up > > TURNON AIR_CONDITIONING 22C Scary. > Plus some authentication!! Yes, some VERY GOOD form of authentication would have to be employed... -- -- gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email

2005-04-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 12:30 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: > A. Khattri wrote: > > >Sounds like a great way to send spam. > > > Or worse. Why is this needed? > rgh. Good for ppl that don't have access to I-Net. (me) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neur

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Rout
I knew a guy once who worked in a call centre, he did not have web access, but had email access. If he wanted to view a web page he sent an email to some external provider with the url in the body of the email, and a short time later he would get the web page back as an attachment. OK so he was ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
A. Khattri wrote: Sounds like a great way to send spam. Or worse. Why is this needed? rgh. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email

2005-04-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Has any seen/tried to implement some sort of mail-responder to grab > webpages via email?? eg? set up a procmail recipe that waits on a > predefined set of message body > > GRAB http://www.google.com > > and then it will use lynx --dump or curl to gr

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email

2005-04-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 09:29 +0200, Chris Prior wrote: > On 2005.04.14 13:47:42 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > Has any seen/tried to implement some sort of mail-responder to grab > > webpages via email?? eg? set up a procmail recipe that waits on a > > predefined set of message body > > Take

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Rout
With procmail you can pipe any message to any program you like Just start the "action" line with the pipe symbol eg: :0: :0 *^Subject.*Script |myprocessing.sh You might want some heavy security checking in the script! :-) On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 13:47 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Hi All, > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email

2005-04-14 Thread Chris Prior
On 2005.04.14 13:47:42 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Has any seen/tried to implement some sort of mail-responder to grab > webpages via email?? eg? set up a procmail recipe that waits on a > predefined set of message body Take a look at http://www4mail.org/ -- Christian Prior http://christ

[gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email

2005-04-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi All, Has any seen/tried to implement some sort of mail-responder to grab webpages via email?? eg? set up a procmail recipe that waits on a predefined set of message body GRAB http://www.google.com and then it will use lynx --dump or curl to grab the page and re-sends it back to the o