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. _______________________________________________ spoon-discuss mailing list spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/spoon-discuss