[aklug] Re: e-mail scripting

From: barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net>
Date: Tue Jan 01 2013 - 11:37:10 AKST

I use bogofilter, but Royce's idea is sound.

Quoting Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org>:

> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> * Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> [121231 17:09]:
>> > Is there anyone else on the list who plays around with scripted
>> > management / filtering / manipulation of incoming e-mail (i.e., as a
>> > client, not server-side stuff)? If so what tools do you use? (E.g., what
>> > e-mail client do you use? How do you pass e-mails to your scripts? What
>> > languages / utilities do you use?)
>>
>> I don't follow exactly what you are up to here, but having set up
>> things like submissions to databases via email, I suppose those
>> methods could be better leveraged by apps like mutt, pine, and
>> alpine which are designed for shell access.
>> MTCW
>>
>> > Lately I've been in an "automate or die" mood and I've been trying to
>> > apply that mentality to my incoming e-mail. For example, every week I
>> > usually get church bulletin documents e-mail to me, so I manually
>> > convert them to PDF, and upload them to the church Web site. But now I'm
>> > trying to automate that.
>>
>
> Thinking further on this ... if someone is mailing the documents to you,
> couldn't you instead provide them with a web interface that converts and
> publishes the files directly?
>
> In other words: why shoehorn the workflow into email, only to pull it out
> again? Skip the middle man. Use the richer set of tools available, instead
> of being constrained by only the things that email can do.
>
> I think I'm up to $0.08 now. And no, just because the notation is decimal,
> squaring cents doesn't diminish their number. ;-)
>
> Royce
>

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