Lan IP Triggered By Email

[pieman82]

Hello,

I'm not sure if this is dead simple or impossible but, I have a program that detects a change in state and sends an email. I need that email to trip a relay on the local network. The address that activates the relay is: http://192.168.1.2/state.xml?relayState=1.
It can also accept xml commands (if that helps).
Any ideas would be much appreciated.

 

[Ken g6]

I'm not sure what people use to get email these days. I use POP in Thunderbird.

Given a plaintext mailbox, from POP or a local mail server or whatever, I could grep for and count those emails, and use wget to call that address on a change in email count.

 

[pieman82]

Thanks Ken. I'm not in any way familiar with these programs but I'll do a little research.

 

[mundane]

From what I understand of your requirements, either:
1. You can poll the mailserver (using fetchmail), and when an email with your crafted contents is delivered, execute a shell script (wget like Ken suggested, using Procmail).
2. Python script using poplib (POP3 mailbox access) with urlib (to make the HTTP GET request).

 

[andyinv]

You need to explain what your email architecture is. For example, if you have an Exchange server, then a simple powershell or dotnet app to check mail would be easy enough. Both could call the resultant service as well.