Sorry Bill, I just accidentally sent my reply to you rather than the whole list!<br><br><div><span class="q"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Anyway, what will be checking the mail? The backend? If not, what platform?</blockquote>
</span><div><br>Well, my idea was just to have a script on the
frontend, that launched a program (I don't know much about fetchmail,
but it sounds like that would do it), and waited for output to launch
MythTVOSD.<br></div><span class="q"><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I wrote something before to turn lights on and off when I had mail, but with the increase in spam it became pointless.
<br><br>Also, then how do you have it filter by user? I like the VOSD idea, but there is a bunch of little issues with doing that...</blockquote></span><div><br>Maybe
- I just have a BE/FE in my bedroom, which is where I imagined the
script would run, so theres no real problem for me. My FE downstairs
could run a similar script for a different account if we wanted to.
<br> </div><span class="q"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">* My wife does not want to see my mail - I also don't want her to see that I got a Newgg order confirmation in :)
<br><br>* Spam<br><br>* I don't want to see her email about this and that..<br><br>*
I don't want to see notification for every mail from Mythtv-users (I
love you guys, but sometimes its best to have a little time without).
</blockquote></span><div><br>I
have several email addresses (and gmail addresses), the spam detection
in GMail usually seems quite good, and I wouldn't use this email
address which is subscribed to this list! I very rarely get spam for my
main GMail address - so I wouldn't mind an OSD message for each one.
<br><br></div><span class="q"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>It
would not be bad to whip up something in perl that checked accounts and
sent VOSD signals. I would definitely limit it to a white list of
senders and / or domains though.
<br><br>The grail of integration would be a click "L" or whatever to
view, then have it popup in a window onscreen :) - but that is beyond
my skill level</blockquote></span><div><br>Yes - great idea! I'm really busy at the moment so I can't do much coding but I'd like to experiment with it!
<br></div><br></div>Jonny<br>