Joel Uckelman on 23 Sep 2003 23:31:24 -0000


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Re: [spoon-discuss] Auto Remailer


Thus spake Daniel Lepage:
> 
> On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 06:22 PM, SkArcher wrote:
> 
> > Question: Would it be possible to set up an automatic remailer that 
> > accepts
> > e-mails in, stores them until a specific time and then resends them 
> > (to the
> > list)?
> >
> > If so, who can do it, what would it take, and how long would you need 
> > to do
> > it?
> >
> > This is kind of needed to work around a problem I have in a rules 
> > change
> 
> Joel's already written something similar called escrow that emails a 
> bunch of people, waits for their responses, and as soon as everyone's 
> responded, sends all the responses to some other email address. It's 
> pretty easy to use and fairly flexible. (I keep meaning to revive the 
> Super Powers stuff using this, but I spend all my free time writing 
> messages like this one instead of doing productive things, so that's 
> unlikely to happen soon)
> 
> But as far as I know, it doesn't support specific time sending, so it 
> might not suit your purposes. I would estimate that such a program 
> could be written in a few days, assuming somebody has the time to work 
> on it. I'd volunteer, but I don't have the time.
> 
> -- 
> WOnko

Modifying my program to send after some period has elapsed is a matter of 
adding an option and a cron script. It won't be hard, nor will it take long.


-- 
J.


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