XBMCMail (SSS V.0.91) RELEASED - Comments/Bug Reports Welcome HERE!

[stanley87]

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# XBMCMail (SSS V.0.91) #
# By Stanley87 #
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# sample script from: #
# xbmcmail v0.3.1 - By burriko #
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# A pop3 email client for xbmc #
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New Features:

**Fully customisable settings via GUI
**Master Password on start-up option
**Email notification sounds
**Better parsing of HTML emails - more updates to come
**Fully updated VISUAL FX's! - more updates to come

Features to come:
**Delete emails option
**Better attachments handling
**More VISUAL FX's (icons, backgrounds)
**support for showing current playing media, album art etc.
**support for mp3 email notification sounds
**Much better support for other skins and resolutions (720p & 1080i etc)
**SEND EMAILS??


Hi all,
This is my 2nd update for this scritp but calling it the first proper version of (SSS Mod) and starting with version "V0.91"
From now on burriko's "version" of his original XBMCMail script will be excluded from the script name as so much has changed I am moving away from it.

I think xbmcscripts.com is having some uploading issues as I can not update yet, but keep checking back and hope it is up in the next few days.

Please let me know what you all think of the scipt.

Cheers,

Stanley87

[trignum5]

You want temporary hosting? Nothing special but I can put it on my webserver until you manage to get it properly hosted..

[sollie]

I cant wait, but i have to :)

[blittan]

good that someone picked this up.. was thinking about it myself, but have my hands full with emuLauncher and xbmcscripts.com installer..

Some feedback and thoughts.

1st: in the readme.txt change xbmc.org/forums -> xbmc.org/forum (no S on the end..)

2nd: skip the just using 2 mail accounts, make it a for account in accounts do: thingie..

3rd: you might want to look into using my xbmcClass (http://xbmc-python.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/xbmcClass/) for translations. uses xml parser for the languages, falls back to english if no other language is there or is incompletely translated.

sidenote: got your mail about the uploadproblem, hope you got it solved.

[stanley87]

1) I will do straight away

2) Didn’t really understand this? Your meaning to rename the Email buttons? I could have it so instead of Email 1 and Email 2 it grabs the username of the account it checks?? Or make this an option.??

3) I will try to implement this, I used Emulauncher script as a guide to the Settings menu and see that there is multi-language support and skin support in it also, so will get on to this.

Thanks for feedback.

MERRY XMAS!! (I'm in NZ so it's 8am XMAS morning and quickly posting before heading off to xmas functions.)

Stanley87

[stanley87]

Also, if there are children downloading this, the default email notification sound it comes with is the "Mail Mother Fu**ker" (Euro Trip) so turn down the sound when mummy is in the room (or included in the readme is how to change the sound (very easy to do)):-D

[blittan]

Let me explain number two :P

Do somekind of loop, to allow multiple accounts (more than two)

suggested settings.xml

<settings>
<general>
<masterpassenable>-</masterpassenable>
<masterpass>-</masterpass>
</general>
<server id="1">
<name>Name for server ONE</name>
<isp>-</isp>
<user>-</user>
<pass>-</pass>
</server>
<server id="2">
<name>Name for server TWO</name>
<isp>-</isp>
<user>-</user>
<pass>-</pass>
</server>
<server id="3">
<name>Name for server THREE</name>
<isp>-</isp>
<user>-</user>
<pass>-</pass>
</server>
</settings>


Then in the script call this and read out every single server.

After that do a loop that checks every server instead of as now having first a check ISP1 then a check ISP2..

This will not only compress code, but also be more flexible as it allows to control 3, 4 or more accounts :D

This is just a basic quick draft when looking at your code of checking emails. Would sure need some more structure/thinking of layouts etc..

But this should get you started in that direction :nod:

If anything is unclear, please ask and I'll try and collaborate my ideas..

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Also another suggestion is to use password inputs that masks the password as typed and also use some sort of encryption for the stored passwords (just to make it a little harder to get them) I mean, since the .py is not protected it wont be 100% secure, but those wannabe hackers might get confused :;):

[stanley87]

Ok got ya, Yeh, so far I have just got the script "on paper" as such. It’s very messy and there is allot of cleaning up to do. I just wanted to get a first proper release out there to get a "BUZZ" going.

:-)

Encryption - very good idea, At the moment the password is not stored any where in the .py file. It’s purely in the XML settings file. But I could have it encrypt it when writing to the XML. But there is still always the ability to be able to open the .py and see the encryption method. But still - this would make it quite abit harder to "hack".


Also, maybe you can help with this, I want to be able to write into the script the ability to send SSL to pop email accounts as (GMAIL and some others require this) The SSL required for Gmail is 995. (In outlook express etc this can be enabled) I hope i can find a way to do this in this script to allow GMAIL users the pleasure of using this script.

Also, I had an idea that i will also introduce in the future. PRESET MAJOR Email providers "settings" EG: You go into settings and select "GMAIL ACCOUNT" and then it proceeds to ask for your Gmail username etc and automatically enables the SSL (995) that is required. Also with GMail, the username has to be entered not only as eg. Monkeyman2000 but must also contain "@ gmail.com" and the preset "template" will do this for you or something like that.

Thanks,
Watch this space.
Stanley87

[blittan]

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-poplib.html

you might want to check that out for SSL ..

http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2004/06/18/1751
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gotmail/


might be something for other webbased mails

[stanley87]

SSL is now all go and my "Gmail TEST" account is working all ok :-D. So, in the future release, SSL ENABLE will be an option in the settings as well as the desired SSL port (default = 995 (Gmail etc uses this)

Due to python, which is incorporated in XBMC, is an older version than the latest, a command line has been added to poplib module, which allows SSL with pop commands. So my script now contains a new folder "lib" which contains the latest poplib module which is now loaded via default.py rather than the old poplib contained in xbmc.

Can you see any problems with this method??

It works find at present.

[blittan]

Suggestion: make ssl port a per account setting eg: have it saved with every account you add..

I cant see any reason its not going to work, maybe can occur a conflict, but not sure since I am not that experienced in python programming.

[stanley87]

Suggestion: make ssl port a per account setting eg: have it saved with every account you add..

I cant see any reason its not going to work, maybe can occur a conflict, but not sure since I am not that experienced in python programming.

DONE!!

This has to be the case as if SSL is enabled on a pop account that does not use it, it will not work.

At present, i am working on the delete email function and have it 90% working, when an email has been selected and "X" is pressed, you are given a yes/no dialog to delete the email.

[sollie]

This is cool,

Ps: what about running in background with popup possibility :rofl:
Learn from msnx (popup and background modus).

Sollie.

[stanley87]

Didnt know this was possible. I will get that script right away and get on to it!!

Cheers for the info

Stanley87

[stanley87]

Cant find MSNX anywhere?

Where can i find this script?

[hXr.eXe]

download: http://ccgi.eleclan.co.uk/screens/msnx.rar

from thread: http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=20937

oh n btw gr8 job on xbmc mail :kikass

hopefuly some1 wil pick up on msnx soon as well, diaqdave said he would if we're interested but we havent heard from him since...

[jonkersm]

I'm happy to hear someone picked up this mail script to improve it.
I was looking for an easy way to delete some mails and therefore I made some changes to the original script.
Since Stanley picked this up I think we will get much more additions to come.
Good work !:laugh:

[stanley87]

I'm happy to hear someone picked up this mail script to improve it.
I was looking for an easy way to delete some mails and therefore I made some changes to the original script.
Since Stanley picked this up I think we will get much more additions to come.
Good work !:laugh:

Hi, Thanks,

How did you do your email delete function? As with pop3, the emails aren’t actually deleted until mail.quit() function is called. This is annoying, as then you need to log back in and get all the emails again. What I am planning on doing is (already have it 90% working) when you are browsing the emails, and you press "Y" on an email. It asks you if you want to delete the email, then if yes, the mail.dele() function is run. But the mail.quit() is not and the email is simply removed from the list. Then when the user exits the script or checks another email addy, the mail.quit function is then run and the emails are deleted from the server.

What do u think?

[jonkersm]

Stanley,
This is exatly the way to do it.
I read that you delete all mails downloaded from the server when quiting ?
I prefer leaving all the mails I don't delete ,on the pop server so I can still download them with my pc, even if they have been stored on the Xbox.
Since every mail has an unique number you will have to download only the ones you don't have already on your xbox.

[stanley87]

Stanley,
This is exatly the way to do it.
I read that you delete all mails downloaded from the server when quiting ?
I prefer leaving all the mails I don't delete ,on the pop server so I can still download them with my pc, even if they have been stored on the Xbox.
Since every mail has an unique number you will have to download only the ones you don't have already on your xbox.

Hi, the newest script you should receive very soon (tonight I hope) is a much better improvement. On first start up, there is the option to keep all emails on server or not. If yes is selected. All emails are kept 100% in tact on the server and I've been working very hard on a quick way for the XBOX to detect what emails it has and hasn't and have got it working very well. With each email it downloads, it also downloads an email "ID" to a separate file on the xbox. These id's are about 1kb. So when cross-checking emails between the xbox and server, only 1kb is exchanged per email and this results in VERY fast cross-checking. And if an ID is found on the server, which is not on the xbox, then that email is downloaded. My old way of doing it where it downloads every email AGAIN then checks it against the emails it already has was so slow and not worth it.
Also fixed a few little things (settings menu with MC360 would not show highlighted selection) etc.

If no is selected then emails are deleted off the server when downloaded to the xbox.
:-D
Stanley87

[stanley87]

Thing is, with the first option, when the emails are deleted on the xbox, they aren’t actually deleted off the server. I will hope to change this in the future and have two options - delete off server? or delete from xbox inbox?. For the server part, its abit harder but is doable using the ID files to find the correct corresponding email that has been selected.