Incoming Email --> Run Script

wilfredtr · Post by **wilfredtr** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 4:58 pm

Here's something I don't see posted. Can Macro Scheduler sit and look at an Desktop Outlook and/or Webbased Yahoo incoming email and start a script based on a subject line keyword?

Is there perhaps something in Outlook itself that I (no pun intended) overlooked that can be used to activate an external program based on some parameters?

Any advice would be appreciated!

- Wilfred

pgriffin · Post by **pgriffin** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 10:02 pm

It is possible to create quite advanced macros within Outlook. You might check under the Tools menu. With an OutLook macro is would certainly be possible to run a MacroScheduler macro.

However, you might also use RetrievePOP3> in MacroScheduler to receive emails for some account. this way you could store all the emails in text format in a specific directory, then easily search the files for subject line content.

You might then use SMTPSendMail> to send an email based on what you have received.

What exactly are you trying to automate? This might help us give you good suggestions.

wilfredtr · Post by **wilfredtr** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 1:51 am

There is a website that I was pounding away at with a bot. However they have become aware of this. So now I need to start that program when ever I receive an "what you're looking for is posited" email that would be the trigger. I can then run the program for a short time and "hide" again.

pgriffin · Post by **pgriffin** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 6:58 pm

This forum is not here to help you "Pound away" at a web site. If you have a legitimate business computing need, we can all help you. If you have some malicious intention, don't post your inquiries here.

wilfredtr · Post by **wilfredtr** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 7:41 pm

! What I perhaps poorly described as "pounding away" wasn't at all malicious, it was searching for new business that is first posted on a website and then emailed. There is no intention to use *this* program for that. If you re-read my response - that's what I was doing, with another program and I don't want to continue doing that. I'm looking for the ability to respond only to an alerting email, and only activate the other program for 1 min.

- Wilfred

pgriffin · Post by **pgriffin** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 3:56 am

...in that case, I would still suggest using RetrievePOP3>, if possible.

To clarify, what you are trying to do is wait for some text to be posted on a website, then you want to retreive an email concerning that text?

Why not just set up RetrievePOP3> to fire every minute or so and check for the text in the subject line.

The help files explain pretty well how to receive emails to a specific folder. they are stored as text, so it's simple to do a Readfile> to see if the file contains what interests you.