Subject: Can Pine notify web site of incoming e-mail ?

From: "Ross Lamb" <[email-masked]>
Date: 1 May 1997 17:14:35 GMT

I wonder if anyone knows whether you can set up Pine so that it
automatically notifies a web site of incoming e-mail messages.

Seiko Message Watch have a web site where they can page me automatically if
I enter a specific URL designation.  I wonder whether Pine can be setup
such that the URL will be "hit" everytime I receive an incomng e-mail.

If anyone has any ideas I would be very grateful.

Ross Lamb

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 09:15:48 +0200 (CEST)

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On 1 May 1997, Ross Lamb wrote:

  >automatically notifies a web site of incoming e-mail messages. Seiko
  >Message Watch have a web site where they can page me automatically if I
  >enter a specific URL designation. I wonder whether Pine can be setup such
  >that the URL will be "hit" everytime I receive an incomng e-mail.

And just how should it even begin to do that? Pine is an email program...

There are some kluges I could think of, all of them involving cron jobs
that somehow monitor your inbox (time-stamp would be an idea, like asmail or
xbiff) and upon alteration launch lynx and kill it immediately.

You could, of course, also abuse procmail for this purpose, but I couldn't
figure out how to assign a terminal to lynx right now :-)

Later,
Robin

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