Email notification programs

Graeme Dice · #1 October 18th, 2006, 01:04 AM

Does anybody know of a good program that is capable of sending out emails to all of the players in my games through the use of the postexec command? I'd like to streamline the hosting process as much as possible, and I think that this would be a great benefit.

Ygorl · #2 October 18th, 2006, 02:01 AM

I can send you something if you've got a Mac... I'm sure others more astute than I can help you with Windows or Linux.

Foodstamp · #3 October 18th, 2006, 02:02 AM

I don't believe I understand exactly what you need. But a good start would be to install Mozilla Thunderbird (The Email client I use) and then click on tools/extensions and browse the dozens of user made tools/utilities made for Thunderbird.

Zen · #4 October 18th, 2006, 02:04 AM

What he is looking for is something that will automatically send Emails after a turn is processed that you can use from a command line.

I remember Bruce had one he made with Perl, but I haven't seen any recent ones.

Foodstamp · #5 October 18th, 2006, 02:07 AM

Oh, then I highly doubt thunderbird would be useful =/.

Graeme Dice · #6 October 18th, 2006, 02:16 AM

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Zen said:
What he is looking for is something that will automatically send Emails after a turn is processed that you can use from a command line.

Yep. That's exactly what I'm looking for. Since I'm about to start hosting a third game, I'd like to get everything as automated as possible.

I remember Bruce had one he made with Perl, but I haven't seen any recent ones.

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Arralen · #7 October 18th, 2006, 02:48 AM

Strongly depends on the OS you're using ... !!??

Graeme Dice · #8 October 18th, 2006, 03:00 AM

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Arralen said:
Strongly depends on the OS you're using ... !!??

Thought I had mentioned it was win98. It's easy to script in *nix, but I'm not particularly interested in reinstalling the OS on my server computer after six years of no trouble with it.

Cainehill · #9 October 18th, 2006, 03:06 AM

Easy enough in Linux/Unix, even without Perl. You could just setup a shell script in your choice of shell, invoke mail/pine/elm/etc for each player sending the appropriate turn file.

Arralen · #10 October 18th, 2006, 03:27 AM

Automailer or V-Mailer could be exactly what you want ... I haven't tried them myself, therefore I can't say anything 'boutthem.

Some full-fledged mail clients seem to be able to run from the command line as well, e.g. Pegasus Mail or Pine, but again I can't provide any details. (I use Pegasus personally, but never cared about such details. If everything else fails, I might try it out, though)