New Plugin: Email Reader (Alpha preview)

[sammy_smith]

I'm in the same boat as pcostanza. I know mine is configured right, and it says downloading email, but it shows 0 messages. I know there is a new message, because I sent myself one before I installed the plugin.

[Remco]

I'm glad you like the plugin and it seems to work ok for an alpha.

@Tipstir:
- What do you mean by "This can be re-skinned into X Media MVP when you give us rights to your skin.xml?"?


@Gunr
- It only downloads the messages; the messages are never deleted from server.
- the outlook(express) mailboxes cannot be read; only the the pop-server-mailboxes. You could take a look at the PIM-plugin (http://www.bladerhq.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Plugin/PIM)

@HenkH
Thanx for your comments
- I'm currently writing a configuration panel for the settings. It probably be ready next week
- "Since you're not using a button bar on the left side of the screen (it only contains the 'Main menu' button) you can get rid of it". But where to put the 'Main' button? Also, i'm planning on putting there a "refresh" button
- "The sender/subject box is too narrow. Maybe you can get rid of the accounts-box: only show them in a pop-up at startup and when pressing a special key.". I'll give it a thought; the solution Reven suggest might work.
- "If you have a wider sender/subject box you might add the data/time of the message to it." On a tv-screen, i don't want too much information on it. Possibly i make this configurable?
- "Is there an automatic recheck of the mailboxes?". Not yet; i'll put a button "Refresh" on it.


@Reven
- your suggestions about the layout sounds good; but indeed requires some re-programming. Maybe in the next release
- Attachments are currently neglected. In case of a multi-part-message, the plugin searches for a plain/text part; if none found, it searches for a plain/html part and converts it to plain/text. I'm thinking about showing attached images; but that's going to be a next-next-release.

@pcostanza & @sammy_smith
- Are you sure your email.xml looks something like?

Code:

<accounts>
    <account name="Remco (zonnet)" server="pop.zonnet.nl" username="remco.van.otterdijk" password="Sswdfkjh3q9w487"/>
</accounts>

- Otherwise; could you set the logging-level to debug, try it again and send me the log-files (remco.van.otterdijk at zonnet dot nl)? The logs contain your new emails; but no passwords; i hope you don't mind. Thanks

[pcostanza]

I double checked my settings....in my case "pop.east.cox.net" and it says it's downloading and I don't get an error but still--------nothing.

Paul

[Remco]

I double checked my settings....in my case "pop.east.cox.net" and it says it's downloading and I don't get an error but still--------nothing.

I can't dig into it without logs. If you don't want to send them (i can imagine in case there are some spicy emails in them ), could you check GBPVR.exe.log yourself whether it contain email-text?

Remco

[Remco]

I gave it a try with an alternative layout: When a listbox (with accounts or mails) is inactive; it shrinks automatically




Download the dll

Please let me know what you think of it.

[jorm]

that looks cool. I have to download it and take a look at it.

I noticed that you mentioned wanting to handle html emails that is probably more work then you expect.

Also a panel showing new email indicator

[pcostanza]

Remco,
I checked the GBPVR.exe log and the word 'email' does not show up at all. Can I manually install this?
I use the Platinum skin but have tried the default skin as well. I even moved up to the most recent version today.....no joy.

Thanks for helping.

Paul

[Remco]

I noticed that you mentioned wanting to handle html emails that is probably more work then you expect.

Also a panel showing new email indicator

-I was hoping a ready-to-use-HTML-renderer could be used. But there isn't one available in C#? (haven't searched for it yet)
-I'll put the panel on the wish-list; but low-priority right now

I checked the GBPVR.exe log and the word 'email' does not show up at all. Can I manually install this?

I mean email itself (the headers, text, etc) should appear in the log-files. Otherwise you'll probably find something like "9-4-2005 17:17:48.906 INFO [2] MailPlugin: Finished retrieving messages for (0 new mail)"

Just tested out this new dll works nice and a config in plug-ins config great feature. Hope we can say bye to the black and red scheme soon?

First i want to get the basic functionality to work and to decide the layout of the screen. What do you want to be skinnable? Colors, fonts and XY-locations? Or should the buttons and boxes be images?
BTW The config plugin wasn't meant to be published. It isn't able to store the settings

[pcostanza]

My log files don't show any email headers. The only thing is shows for email is 'adding task: email'. My ISP is Cox and my pop server has never changed. I used Outlook 2003 and get more junk mail than the law allows. My settings are correct.
I don't get an error when trying to use the function in GB-PVR...it says it's downloading but says '0 new email'.

[jorm]

I have only see the html render in a windows form which does not work inside of gbpvr. That is why you havent seen a web browser plugin