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Oooh I think this is great Another one, as an example, check the FDA food and drug alerts for medicine you take. I guess the pharmacy should email you but who
by JZL003 4y ago
Oooh I think this is great
Another one, as an example, check the FDA food and drug alerts for medicine you take. I guess the pharmacy should email you but who knows, it's just filtering an xml for a set of regex. I built a cheap example myself on a micro self hosted server I use for other things
Having quick and easy email behind a very simple url is great. Another usecase I use is I have a tiny http endpoint which just emails based on the url parameter (e.g. since it's only me my.server.com/email?msg=DONE_AI_training). Then I can use it to notify me when a long running job is done, using curl or the easy off the shelf requests that's in any language
- JZL003 4y agoI think I'll start using it but I'd like self hosting only because I want to set it and forget it for years potentially, and I don't want to have to check to make sure it's still working
- paxys 4y agoI don't really see the utility of a tool like this + self hosting. If you want to self host your scripts just...open a text editor and start writing.
- djbusby 4y agoYea, for self-hosted I've got 15 year old Perl scripts on cron still doing their thing.
- JZL003 4y agoI mean you're right, I coded it quick in bash. The actual `grep` is of course bulletproof but I don't have a bulletproof notification system. If I was on a local unix machine I'd use `mail` but I mostly check gmail. I can use a simple smtp bridge but it's not always reliable I've been meaning to set up automated testing where it sends an email every day and then I use something like google apps script to make sure it goes through. Like a cronjob checker but for email, maybe it already exists
- rezonant 4y agothe utility would be the interface, this takes all the boilerplate out of the picture