Yep the idea being I could send an email with a known subject the account is
pre-made on my server to only deal with those emails and the rules for the
email would only accept emails directly from me . Then have say an automated
download of an ISO (linux distro) for example by putting in a command into
the message.

I found a command line download program 
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/wpd.html
seemed ok but then realised that I could get linux to get files from FTP via
terminal incredibly easily - just not from HTTP (not that I have tried yet)

Its all just something I am playing with - I don't NEED to be able to do
this but on those occasions when I might find it useful (upload or download
etc)



-----Original Message-----
From: pete@petertodd.ca [mailto:pete@petertodd.ca] 
Sent: 01 May 2007 09:02
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [OT] automation via email

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On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 07:23:54AM +0100, pic@gavin-egan.com wrote:
> Considering the recent worries about intrusion via VNC 
> 
> I wondered if it was possible to set up some automated tasks via email
> 
> I tend to leave my pc's on all the time 1x Ubuntu and the other Windows
2000
> 
> However this was just a thought and I am musing over the method to parse
the
> email.

What do you mean by "automated tasks over email" exctly? Do you want to
securely trigger a task via a special email message? Or have one machine
trigger another machine automatically through email?

For parsing look into procmail, you can setup a special email account
where any message going to it matching certain parameters, like subject
line and what not, will automatically be sent to the standard input of a
specified program.

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