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Re: [ECS] Postie works great Ingo Dean Tue, 02 Mar 1999 23:35:50 -0500

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william@qualityhunt.com wrote:

> Ingo, thanks for the reply. I am already using Postie and it does exactly what I was
looking for. Do you use it with ECS too? Reddy.

I was for a while, but then I loaded PERL onto my PC.  Now I have ECS starting PERL
scripts to do most things since I can customize
their output more (plus I've got almost 8 years of PERL (on UNIX) experience as a systems
administrator).  It's easier to have it output
a file formatted exactly how I want ECS to speak it.  My wife likes it when ECS announces
"Pam, check your e-mail.  You have 2 new
messages."  Now she doesn't have to check every so often, and I can send her e-mail
from work and know that she'll read it.

But Postie is definitely the way to go if you're not a PERL hacker.  It'll be a little
harder to format output strings, but you should
be able to do the same thing by putting the Text-item together inside ECS.

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