<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bill Chmura</b> <<a href="mailto:Bill@explosivo.com">Bill@explosivo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 17:40:18 +0000<br>"jonny Linux" <<a href="mailto:jonnylinux@gmail.com">jonnylinux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Sorry Bill, I just accidentally sent my reply to you rather than the whole
<br>> list!<br>><br>><br>> > Anyway, what will be checking the mail? The backend? If not, what<br>> > platform?<br>><br>><br>> Well, my idea was just to have a script on the frontend, that launched a
<br>> program (I don't know much about fetchmail, but it sounds like that would do<br>> it), and waited for output to launch MythTVOSD.<br><br>With multiple frontends, configuration of this would be better centralized on the back-end.
<br><br>I would also avoid downloading all the mail, just to check from to and subject. Those are all in the header and does not require the whole envelope. Less impact overall this way.<br><br><br>> I wrote something before to turn lights on and off when I had mail, but with
<br>> > 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<br>> > there is a bunch of little issues with doing that...<br>
><br>><br>> Maybe - I just have a BE/FE in my bedroom, which is where I imagined the<br>> script would run, so theres no real problem for me. My FE downstairs could<br>> run a similar script for a different account if we wanted to.
<br><br>Bah, you need to over complicate things like I do. Otherwise there is no challenge to it. :)<br><br><br><br>><br>> > * My wife does not want to see my mail - I also don't want her to see that<br>> > 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<br>
> > love you guys, but sometimes its best to have a little time without).<br>><br>><br>> I have several email addresses (and gmail addresses), the spam detection in<br>> GMail usually seems quite good, and I wouldn't use this email address which
<br>> is subscribed to this list! I very rarely get spam for my main GMail address<br>> - so I wouldn't mind an OSD message for each one.<br><br>Yeah, I am not so fortunate. I think I would personally need to approach it from a whitelist type thing. I suppose I could also do a blacklist functionality, that should not be much harder.
<br><br><br>> > It would not be bad to whip up something in perl that checked accounts and<br>> > sent VOSD signals. I would definitely limit it to a white list of senders<br>> > and / or domains though.
<br>> ><br>> > The grail of integration would be a click "L" or whatever to view, then<br>> > have it popup in a window onscreen :) - but that is beyond my skill level<br>><br>><br>> Yes - great idea! I'm really busy at the moment so I can't do much coding
<br>> but I'd like to experiment with it!<br>><br>> Jonny<br><br>I may play with VOSD tonight - depending on how much fun that is, I may start on a notification thing. but then again, my list of mythbox todo's is pretty long. I have a usb joystick that causes the machine to instantly restart as soon as I move it. Makes testing mythgame a challenge :)
<br></blockquote></div><br>Hi Everyone,<br><br>thanks for all the responses, I am just a user of myth and i have no idea how to code anything, so i anit going to be much help i am afraid.<br><br>But what i had in mind was just a basic email client. i am sure that the wife wants to be able to do anything with the email she would normally do with outlook. But she complains every time i pull out the keyboard. "this is a lounge room not your study" or similar. funny how things change when she deems it worthy.......
<br><br>the idea to have a menu item that drops you out of Myth and loads an email client would be a great first step. and combine that with an OSD of incoming emails would be great.<br><br>CH<br><br>