Re: Getting response by email reply message

2015-11-10 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Tue, 10 Nov 2015 11:23:21 +0100, Laura Creighton writes: >Their is no demand for 'yes/no answers' -- you can typically vote for s/Their/There/ ... >the whole thing way, way, way to heavy-weight for most purposes. s/to/too/ also s/heavy-weight/heavyweight/ depending on where in t

Re: Getting response by email reply message

2015-11-10 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Mon, 09 Nov 2015 23:09:50 -0800, zljubi...@gmail.com writes: >> If what you really need is a voting application, you can look at >> https://github.com/mdipierro/evote which the PSF uses for its elections. > >It is not a voting application (I will have more than yes/no answers). >I

Re: Getting response by email reply message

2015-11-09 Thread zljubisic
> If what you really need is a voting application, you can look at > https://github.com/mdipierro/evote which the PSF uses for its elections. It is not a voting application (I will have more than yes/no answers). I just want to keep an example simple. Anyway, I will look into voting application

Re: Getting response by email reply message

2015-11-09 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Mon, 09 Nov 2015 13:45:32 -0800, zljubi...@gmail.com writes: >> I'm assuming this is a website. If so, why not use a form with a checkbox? > >One of ideas is to put two url's in the email, one for yes and the other one >for no. > >I am also thinking about reading/parsing the reply

Re: Getting response by email reply message

2015-11-09 Thread Tim Chase
On 2015-11-09 13:53, zljubi...@gmail.com wrote: > > You have a couple options that occur to me: > > > > 1) set up an SMTP server somewhere (or use the existing one you're > > receiving this email at in the event you're getting it as mail > > rather than reading it via NNTP or a web interface) to r

Re: Getting response by email reply message

2015-11-09 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
Ian Kelly : > I wouldn't suggest trying to set up an SMTP server without a strong > reason, however. These things are surprisingly tricky to configure so > that your server doesn't get used for spam forwarding, and if you > don't play nicely with the SMTP community then you'll find your domain > a

Re: Getting response by email reply message

2015-11-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Ian Kelly wrote: > I wouldn't suggest trying to set up an SMTP server without a strong > reason, however. These things are surprisingly tricky to configure so > that your server doesn't get used for spam forwarding, and if you > don't play nicely with the SMTP comm

Re: Getting response by email reply message

2015-11-09 Thread Ian Kelly
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2015-11-09 08:12, zljubi...@gmail.com wrote: >> I know how to send an email, but I would like to be able to receive >> a reply and act accordingly. Mail reply should contain yes/no >> answer. > > You have a couple options that occur to me: > >

Re: Getting response by email reply message

2015-11-09 Thread Denis McMahon
On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 13:53:24 -0800, zljubisic wrote: >> You have a couple options that occur to me: >> >> 1) set up an SMTP server somewhere (or use the existing one you're >> receiving this email at in the event you're getting it as mail rather >> than reading it via NNTP or a web interface) to

Re: Getting response by email reply message

2015-11-09 Thread zljubisic
> You have a couple options that occur to me: > > 1) set up an SMTP server somewhere (or use the existing one you're > receiving this email at in the event you're getting it as mail > rather than reading it via NNTP or a web interface) to receive the > mail, then create a Python script to poll tha

Re: Getting response by email reply message

2015-11-09 Thread zljubisic
> I'm assuming this is a website. If so, why not use a form with a checkbox? One of ideas is to put two url's in the email, one for yes and the other one for no. I am also thinking about reading/parsing the reply mail. Regards. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Getting response by email reply message

2015-11-09 Thread Tim Chase
On 2015-11-09 08:12, zljubi...@gmail.com wrote: > I know how to send an email, but I would like to be able to receive > a reply and act accordingly. Mail reply should contain yes/no > answer. You have a couple options that occur to me: 1) set up an SMTP server somewhere (or use the existing one y

Re: Getting response by email reply message

2015-11-09 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 11:12 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > I know how to send an email, but I would like to be able to receive a > reply and act accordingly. > Mail reply should contain yes/no answer. > > I don't know whether email is appropriate for such function. > Maybe better idea would be to have lin

Getting response by email reply message

2015-11-09 Thread zljubisic
Hi, I know how to send an email, but I would like to be able to receive a reply and act accordingly. Mail reply should contain yes/no answer. I don't know whether email is appropriate for such function. Maybe better idea would be to have links in email body, one for yes, another for no that wil