IM Forwarding

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 6:14 pm

How about a feature that forwards all of your IM's to an email address?

For example, you could check your IM's while away from home (from a web-based email account).

Post by **Big-O Mark** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 6:25 pm

I'm surprised nobody thought of this feature earlier, it's a great idea! I would love to be able to check my IM's while I'm at work or visiting friends.

Post by **Big-O Ryan** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 7:46 pm

This has been on my list since day 1.

iSteve530 · Post by **iSteve530** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 9:13 pm

verrry interesting

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Apr 21, 2002 4:57 am

Kinda like this?
http://www.tucb.com/projects/eppim.html

Maraklov · Post by **Maraklov** » Sun Apr 21, 2002 6:55 am

heh, i was just think how easy this would be through perl...

and that's how they do it.

iSteve530 · Post by **iSteve530** » Mon Apr 22, 2002 6:30 pm

http://aimforwards.com

MattSwift.com · Post by **MattSwift.com** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 10:53 am

Hey...

Just use task scheduler, and make a new task at whatever timed-interval you want, and have it e-mail the log/history file to your e-mail addy.

Duh!

MattSwift.com · Post by **MattSwift.com** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 10:58 am

Of course...

It'd be much easier for Big-O to do something where say, every 10 new messages you get in away-mode are put all in one e-mail, and sent to you... Maybe have it where you can set up how many messages until it mails you? I get like dozens of messages when I'm away, and I'd hate to have 100 new e-mails... That's an idea... When [ user input ] amount of messages are recieved in [ user input ] mode, then send combined messages to [ user input ] ...

Post by **Big-O Mark** » Tue Apr 23, 2002 12:07 pm

That's a good thought!

It could also be set up to send an email every X minutes/hours. With the send forward every X messages, you may be sitting on 4 IMs waiting for 5, for example, and never see the 4 IMs. If you had it send every hour, then you wouldn't miss any messages in that manner.

EvilJolly · Post by **EvilJolly** » Thu May 02, 2002 1:14 pm

Why not have it so that you can message your computer at home with a specific command and it will e-mail it to you, and just set a maximum number of e-mails per hour to prevent flooding. I could see you using a password, but it would appear in clear text in the IM window on the other computer. Most people have multiple AOL accounts, or when they go somewhere they can use that, or someone else's screenname to check their messages. You could also include an option of "send e-mail when there is more than X amount of messages, or after it has been X amount of time since the last e-mail". *shrug* Just some ideas, peace.

Matt

Post by **Big-O Mark** » Thu May 02, 2002 4:51 pm

The message a command to send the email is an awesome idea, it could be a little insecure for some users who share computers. Another user could spy the special command, alter the email forwarding address, and "steal" your messages, or something like that :).

This is definitely an interesting idea for someone who is the sole user of the computer ... I like it!

EvilJolly · Post by **EvilJolly** » Fri May 03, 2002 2:46 pm

That's why you would have an option so they could turn it off. As for the altering of the e-mail address, just have it set on AIM itself, don't have the e-mail address within the command, just have a set e-mail address that it will always send it to. Anybody who is already on the computer can see the messages anyways.

[]DaT_MaNN03 · Post by **[]DaT_MaNN03** » Sun Nov 17, 2002 11:31 am

this hasnt been talked about for awhile but i would like to see this also....u could make it like an option on ur away message thing

Big-O Software

IM Forwarding

IM Forwarding

You can do this without any extra software.

send e-mail command?

so turn it off

Who is online