Email Questions

my goal is to create a program that runs commands when i txt a certain address with my phone. my own email server was just an idea.

Have you got your own domain? I dont think there is any way you could use your own email server without having your own domain, because you would need to point the MX records for that domain to whatever your external IP address is for the emails to actually end up hitting your computer.

To be honest I think trying to use an email for this kind of thing is going to be pretty tricky... although I'm afraid I dont really have any better suggestions at the moment..

I don't either. Too bad jm hasn't chimed in or kleinma or hack or someone. lol

well I do have a domain, but it isnt exactly what i was intending to do. Il mess around with outlook a little, but i hate relying on other programs to get things done...

I figured out the whole IMAP thing I was working on for downloading emails from Gmail accounts.

I have successfully made a connection and finally been able to download emails.

Which means you can have a custom program that checks GMail for new emails, reacts accordingly to the Subject line (or message body or whatever) and then can like delete the email or set it as Read or whatever. :)

If you want me to pass along the code and tell you where to get the API, let me know.

please! haha howd u figure it out??

can you please post the code on this thread so that viewers can use it as well?

Thanks so much for the help man.

Yup. I'll try to remember to do it tonight.
I'm not near my laptop and all the code is on there.

hah i found ur post. thanks for your help man! i got it all to work. now im just adding commands and memory etc.