This issue was converted from https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/DRTRIGON-101.
Summary: Enable mail receiving for subster as data source
Issue type: New Feature - A new feature of the product, which has yet to be developed.
Priority: Major
Status: Resolved
Assignee: drtrigon <dr.trigon@surfeu.ch>

From: drtrigon <dr.trigon@surfeu.ch>

Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:09:51

Some external data sources and services support E-Mail data exchange. E.g [1] forbids explicitly to parse data, but offers to send them by mail freely (I think [2] has something similar).

[1] http://www.xe.com/ict/?basecur=EUR&historical=false&month=9&day=16&year=2011&sort_by=code&image.x=43&image.y=11
[2] http://www.bundesbank.de/zahlungsverkehr/zahlungsverkehr_bankleitzahlen_download.php

According to [3] a mail forward for "drtrigon+subster@toolserver.org" was created, now all mail to this address get stored into $HOME/data/subster/mail_inbox and can be parsed by the subster bot (e.g. on daily basis) in order to get the data.

[3] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mail

This mechanism can be used e.g. for [4], [5] (gives just a notice that new data are available) and may be (hopefully) others too.

[4] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Wechselkursdaten
[5] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Infobox_Kreditinstitut/DatenDE

As mentioned on [3] one could also consider to use something similar (e.g. mail forward to "drtrigon+bot_control@toolserver.org") to remote control the bots via mail... ![][1]))

[1]: https://jira.toolserver.org/images/icons/emoticons/wink.gif

Version: unspecified
Severity: major