[MMM-MailMessage] Send messages to your MagicMirror via e-mail

[UncleRoger]

Description:

This module checks an e-mail address for new e-mails and displays the subject line on the Magic Mirror. This allows you to post an announcement for all to see or provide information (current wifi password or soup-of-the-day?).

I wanted something like this decades ago (in the time of pagers) but the technology wasn’t available or accessible. Now we all have cellphones and text messages so this is likely not terribly useful but I still wanted to implement the idea.

I’ve tried to document it adequately and done my best to test it but do let me know if you have questions or find a bug.

Screenshots:

Download:

[card:Unclearogre/MMM-MailMessage]

[UncleRoger]

@UncleRoger

I did the card thing per the template but it doesn’t seem to do anything. So the link to the github is: https://github.com/Unclearogre/MMM-MailMessage

[MMRIZE]

@UncleRoger said in [MMM-MailMessage] Send messages to your MagicMirror via e-mail:

I did the card thing per the template

It doesn’t work for some time.

[KristjanESPERANTO]

@UncleRoger Nice. Do you want to add it to the list of modules?

https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/3rd-Party-Modules

edited to fix url

[UncleRoger]

@KristjanESPERANTO said in [MMM-MailMessage] Send messages to your MagicMirror via e-mail:

@UncleRoger Nice. Do you want to add it to the list of modules?

I should do that. I will do that. Thanks for the reminder.

[KristjanESPERANTO]

@UncleRoger What happend to it? The repository isn’t available anymore.

[sdetweil]

@KristjanESPERANTO wrong url

https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/3rd-Party-Modules

note the missing trailing s

[UncleRoger]

@KristjanESPERANTO I don’t know. I can see it just fine but it doesn’t seem to be accessible otherwise. I posted in the github community but have not received an answer yet. Searching for info turned up nothing so far.

Searching when not logged in won’t find it and I can’t even find my user. Maybe I’ve been shadowbanned or something? Can’t imagine why.

[sdetweil]

@UncleRoger you have to login to GitHub
then you can edit the page

see the edit button

[UncleRoger]

@sdetweil
I’ve updated the module list:

Apparently, GitHub’s automated abuse detection decided I was a bad guy and did indeed shadowban me. (They probably talked to my kids or something.) Anyway, it looks like it’s fixed now.

@KristjanESPERANTO

[Volkae]

@UncleRoger
Hey UncleRoger,
very nice idea, thankyou!!
But I´m not able to receive a message, using googlemail.

user: “myadress.gmail.com”,
pass: “mygooglemailpassword”,
host: “imap.gmail.com”,
port: “993”

I also put my sending Mailadress in “validSenders”

Any Idea??

With my arcor-mailadress it works fine…

[UncleRoger]

@Volkae

I did a quick test with my wife’s school google e-mail and didn’t work for me either. I googled around and found that gmail doesn’t support plain imap anymore. (https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255)

It appears you can set up a specific “app password”:

Instead you can enable 2-step verification in your Google account security settings (https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185839), then generate an application password to use instead of your regular account password (https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833). – from https://support.google.com/mail/thread/221127207/

I’m not able to test that right now (I can’t muck up my wife’s work e-mail) but I will give it a bash as soon as I can.

[Volkae]

@UncleRoger
Aah,
I see. No Problem, I tried to manage it with an other Mail-Account by freenet now and it works!

The possibility to see a running text (like a newsticker) would be nice……

[UncleRoger]

@Volkae said in [MMM-MailMessage] Send messages to your MagicMirror via e-mail:

The possibility to see a running text (like a newsticker) would be nice……

I have actually thought about that and started looking at
MMM-NewsFeedTicker to try and figure it out. It shouldn’t be hard but my knowledge of CSS is virtually non-existant.

I got rather busy with other stuff and was unable to follow through on that but at some point I will pick it up again.

[Volkae]

Okay,
maybe in the future….

My Messages are not deleted after the time I adjusted.

[5] Test

means, the Message „Test“ will be deleted after 5 Minutes?

[UncleRoger]

@Volkae
Yes, that should mean it should be removed after 5 minutes. It’s possible that it’s not checking that as often as it should. I’ll look into it.

To be honest, I’m not sure what controls how often it looks at that sort of thing – I think a new e-mail arriving triggers an update but I’m not sure. I may have to implement a timer of some sort (though I have no idea how to do that as yet).

The downside is that I don’t want it to check for e-mail too often as it may be viewed as a hacker/spammer. I’ll see what I can figure out.

[Volkae]

Okay,
a new message will remove the first message but the message must not be empty. Empty messages will be ignored. So you have to write something like “-” in the headline