VBForums Event Notifier program

[MikkyThomeon]

Hi All

I have not got much time on my hands but I have an idea for this site. The idea is that on the hour whenever somebody replies to a thread you have started, a program goes to the website and checks for and progress on your thread directly from the site. I am usually developing and inevitably my mail program gets closed down to save resources on my machine. It would be nice to have a small background app that would notify me when people have responded to my thread. That way I can responsd to them promptly with a response.

Another thing that the app could do is log into the site and also be able to send a template message - eg: looking into, thanks for you response etc.

If any1 would like to run with the idea and post it opensource style then I welcome them to do so. If nobody can do this and I have time, then I will do it

[hellswraith]

This sounds like an RSS feed problem, but I don't know if this site supports RSS feeds.

[MikkyThomeon]

You could even just parse the html page for responses as the format of the pages are consistent

[Merri]

If you get e-mail notifications... then why not make a mail program that only checks for VBForums mails and parses these?

[MikkyThomeon]

If I use a web based mail account to receive VB forums notifications then I would not receive notifications when working on other machines. The web mail provider does not supprt POP3 mail accounts, although I agree otherwise. But then maybe you are working on another machine and do not have a mail account set up on that machine.

[Merri]

Uh, well... I never think mails are setuped on a machine. They're set for programs. So at easiest you'd need only to provide

- what POP3 server to connect and
- username and password for the server

to get the mail. That wouldn't even be too hard to do each time you start a program. The program would work anywhere, as long as the machine has an internet connection and certain ports aren't blocked. Though SSL might be required on some servers.

It is possible to get free POP3 mails too. I had one and I guess there are more than one service providing these.

[MikkyThomeon]

Cool - Internet explorer takes the url of a page as a command line argument!!!

[MikkyThomeon]

Can use a winsock control to check the mail for the VBForums mailer address and then disply the email to the user, or even better, parse the URL from the email message and then automatically navigate to the VBForums post.

[Merri]

Don't do Shell("C:\Program Files\Microsoft Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe " & URL)!

Use ShellExecute instead. I don't want IE to open. You can just shell the url and that's it. Opens any browser then.