Windows Email Notifier?

[Velusion]

Does anyone have a program or script that would auto notify via email people that they can play their turn in a multi TCP/IP game? It needs to be for Windows...

[Gandalf Parker]

It gets rough in windows. But the googler keywords you want are "command line" windows client

You might check out these.. googling (http://www.google.com/search?complete=1&hl=en&q="command+line"+email+windows&btnG=Google+Search)

[NickW]

For Linux servers, I use this script as my --postexec for email notifications

Code:


#!/bin/bash

PLAYER1=someguy@someemail.com
PLAYER2=someguy@someemail.com
PLAYER3=someguy@someemail.com
PLAYER4=someguy@someemail.com
PLAYER5=someguy@someemail.com
PLAYER6=someguy@someemail.com
PLAYER7=someguy@someemail.com
PLAYER8=someguy@someemail.com

sendmail -fme@my.isp.com -FDomserver $PLAYER1 $PLAYER2 $PLAYER3 $PLAYER4 $PLAYER5 $PLAYER7 $PLAYER8 <<EOF
From: Nick's Dom3 Server <me@my.isp.com>
Subject: Game has hosted
Please connect to server XXXX port YYYY to play your next turn
.
EOF



For windows servers, I install windows scripting host and then use this vbs script

Code:


Set objEmail = CreateObject("CDO.Message")


objEmail.From = "yourusername@yourdomain.com"

objEmail.To = "player1@somedomain.com;player2@somedomain.com"
objEmail.Subject = "Game XXX has hosted!"
objEmail.Textbody = "Please connect to server XXXX port YYYY to play your next turn!"

objEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item _
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2

objEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item _
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "smtpserver.yourdomain.com"

objEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item _
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 25

'These lines are for if your ISP's SMTP server required authentication
'They can be commented out if not needed

objEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item _
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate") = 1

objEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item _
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername") = "yourusername"

objEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item _
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword") = "yourpassword"

objEmail.Configuration.Fields.Update

objEmail.Send

[Velusion]

Thanks Nick!

How do you call that VBS script? (i.e. how does it know to activate when the turn is ready?)

[NickW]

With the --postexec argument to dom3. You just whip up a custom shortcut to start your dom3 server. You probably want to use things like --textonly --tcpserver --port and so forth anyway, so just add another arg.

[Velusion]

Ahhh cool. I'll give it a go. Thanks!

[alexti]

You can install cygwin on Windows and use Linux scripts.

[NickW]

alexti said:
You can install cygwin on Windows and use Linux scripts.



Bit of overkill though, for someone who just wants simple email notifications for their dom3 game.

[alexti]

It's useful for all kind of things that are otherwise very difficult on Windows. But considering that it's essentially a large set of many convenient utilities, it's hard for most people to find a "must install" reason for cygwin http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Velusion]

Thanks Nick.... used your script and it seems to be working great!

[NickW]

Velusion said:
Thanks Nick.... used your script and it seems to be working great!



Glad I could help out. I wrote that script because I simply cannot stand to play in a game without email notifications. I'm simply too scatterbrained and can't manage to remember to check every day for new turns without some sort of prompting. Necessity truly is the mother of invention.

[Jack_Trowell]

If it happens to be really needed, I could do a perl script.

By using the correct modules, I could have the same script work bith with widows and Unix with almost no changes, and maybe an external file (XML ?) to setup the whole (list of email addresses + server settings.

Perl (and the needed modules) would be easier (and faster) to install that cygwin, but I wonder if there's really a need for such a script ? (as I'm under the impression that a lot of scripts like that have already been done)