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!!
> 
> Yes, some VERY GOOD form of authentication would have to be employed...

some sort of gpg signing I suppose.

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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 possibility.

but as of now, not being thought of.

> 
> > Plus some authentication!!
> 
> Yes, some VERY GOOD form of authentication would have to be employed...
> 
> 

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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...


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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)

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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 getting
around a restriction imposed by his employers, but he wasn't doing t
much harm :)

Secondly I have seen an email to fax gateway implemented in this way.

Thirdly you could use it to do something like home control

To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Warm up

TURNON AIR_CONDITIONING 22C

Plus some authentication!!


On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:30:00 -0400
Robert G. Hays wrote:

> A. Khattri wrote:
> 
> >Sounds like a great way to send spam.
> >
> Or worse.  Why is this needed?
> rgh.
> 
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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.
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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 grab the page and re-sends
> it back to the original mail sender??

Sounds like a great way to send spam.


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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 a look at http://www4mail.org/

I'm not looking for a service which has it. I'm looking for some way to
implement it.

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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,
> 
>   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 original mail sender??
> 
> 
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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/

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[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 original mail sender??


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