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Hello
List,
At work I
spend a lot of time (at lunch hour, of course ;) on music boards where
mixes are posted, typically 80+ megs in size, and I want to be able to download
them to keep, but obviously I don't want to clog up work's bandwidth. So I had
the idea of an app that would run at home, and I could 'talk' to it from work
when I found a file to download, so when I got home, it would be there on my
desktop.
Cocoa would make
such an app easy, but unfortunately I use only Windows at work, so a
client/server setup would be very hard to develop. I also don't want to have to
open ports and SSH or turn on Apache to do it with forms or anything
like that. So, the best method I could think of was e-mail. It would
be lovely if I could email myself at home with, say, a subject of 'Download' and
the body would be the URL, and then it could email me back at work saying
'recieved request' and 'download complete' and stuff like that. Would be very
nice :o)
What would be the
easiest method? At first I hoped a filter in Mail could call my app, but only
Applescript appears supported in Panther. So then I was thinking a
filter in Mail that would call an Applescript that in turn would call an
application, but would the Applescript be able to forward the mail to my
application? Is there a Cocoa object similar to NSMailDelivery that would allow
me to check a specific email account for incoming 'download' emails instead? Or
does anyone have an idea entirely better than doing this via email?
;o)
Any suggestions
greatly appreciated!
Oli
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