You've Got Mail

So this has turned out to be a fun weekend experiement using my newly purchased Raspberry Pi and Node.js.

The Idea

So during a cycle home from +rehabstudios on Friday, I had an idea where I could use my Raspberry Pi as an announcer for new email to my account. You know something like what AOL had (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB8xPnhpzAM), but I figured I could extend it to the latest technologies. Esentially it will read aloud any new emails I recieve to a specified address.

Exectuction

In your terminal application navigate to your project then run the following.

npm install mail-notifier
npm install say

Then in your project app.js file add the following lines of code and change the options in the imap object to your mail server.

var notifier = require('mail-notifier'),
say = require('say');

var imap = {
  username: "mail@example.com",
  password: "password",
  host: "imap.example.com",
  port: 993, // imap port
  secure: true // use secure connection
};

notifier(imap).on('mail',function(mail){
    say.speak('Alex', 'You\'ve got mail', function(){
        setTimeout(function(){
            say.speak('Alex', 'From: '+mail.from[0].name, function(){
                setTimeout(function(){
                    say.speak('Alex', mail.text);
                },600);
            });
        },800);
    });
}).start();

Now run your application using node app.js. Any email that you send to your listed email will be alerted and read aloud. Enjoy and explore the endless possibilites.