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jsabo
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This new version looks great - I like the new features. I do have one question - Can you elaborate on how to use the email features? I am not quite sure how to configure PowerHome to download mail messages.
Thanks!
Joe
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dhoward
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Joe,
First thing is to setup the EMail tab in the PowerHome Explorer under Setup. You must enable Sendkeys. You can choose whether to restrict the EMail address and whether you want PowerHome to delete any processed SendKeys EMail. Once this is setup, you must call the Process EMail command from within a macro. If you want to do this periodically, set a timed event to call the Macro on the time interval you want. You must also have a default MAPI client enabled. Typically, this would be something like Outlook Express. If you have multiple EMail clients, one of them must be set as the default. When you send a SendKeys Email, the subject line must read the word "SendKeys" without the quotes, case is not important. The body of the EMail will be the SendKeys commands. When the Process EMail command is executed, PowerHome will use your default MAPI client to receive EMail. PowerHome will then scan the received EMail for any messages with SendKeys as the subject. Any with SendKeys as the subject will have the body of the message processed as a SendKeys sequence. If enabled, PowerHome will then delete the processed message.
If you dont have a continuous connection to the Internet and your EMail client is not configured to automatically establish that connection, you'll need PowerHome to do it for before the Process EMail command.
Hope this helps,
Dave.
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hollis
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I tried this and it doesn't work.
I can send emails with no problem. I have a one line macro to process emails (Process Emails). I run it and it seems to read the emails fine (shows authorization and retrieving) and I open the email client and it shows the SendKeys email in the Inbox. But no action is performed and nothing shows up in the event log except "Macro READEMAILS executed". Nothing about the Send Keys command.
Here's the email:
(Sent to the email account on the PowerHome computer (no other accounts setup; using Outlook Express 5 on Windows 95).)
Subject: SendKeys
Message: {x10+C+6+0}{x10+C+102+0}
This should turn ON C6, but nothing happens. I tried {ctrl+esc} and nothing.
Please advise.
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dhoward
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Hollis,
I dont typically use this feature but I just set it up to verify its functionality and had no problems. What probably is missing on your system is enabling sendkeys through email in the Explorer - Setup - Email section. You also need to check on the restrict email sendkeys address. The default is to not allow proccessing and to restict email to the address yourname@yourisp.com. The macro command to process email will still open your default MAPI client and receive your email regardless of the above settings so I suspect the setup section is wherein the problem lies.
Let me know if this works,
Dave.
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hollis
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No, I had it setup like you suggested. I unchecked the "restrict email to address" to see if this would help, and now it is working. I must have had the wrong email address. I should be able to figure it out from here.
This is great since I can send emails via my mobile phone. This gives me "really remote" control.
One thing though is that I would like to restrict to a few addresses (my normal email address, my work email address and my cell phone email address). Is this possible?
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dhoward
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The one other thing I was going to suggest is to be sure and restart PowerHome after any changes to the setup area as they are only read on startup.
I'll make a change for the next version so you can specify up to 5 restrict email addresses 
Dave.
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