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Old January 4th, 2008, 07:42 PM
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Default Re: Community challenge: Automated PBEM e-mailing

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llamabeast said:
Jazzepi, can you just explain point 1 again for me? I understand (and agree with) the bit that getting an e-mail telling you the new turn is out is fun. But I don't understand the "or fetch it from a particular place. The second part is important." bit.

Well, there are two ways to get the file. One is to fetch it through an e-mail client. I use Thunderbird. So, accordingly when I fetch the file it should store it /somewhere/. I'm not sure how, or where, it stores e-mail attachments that have been downloaded from the pop server but not saved explicitly onto the hard drive. My thought was that the program would keep track of which turn attachment to look for, and pick out the newest one by creation date.

This would remove the need to even save the file from the attachment itself.

Actually, I guess you could avoid all of this if the program was able to reach out over the internet and grab its own new copy of the turn file when you ran it and you just used the e-mail alter/turn file as only an alert.

The whole idea was to remove the process of saving the attachment off the e-mail into the individual game folder.

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