Better Email Q&A

FlyingDiver · Post by **FlyingDiver** » Mon Jan 15, 2018 4:04 pm

ghenne wrote: I see Email Scanned messages.
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Jan 15, 2018 at 5:20:05 AM
  Email Scanned                   from "[email protected]"; subject "Payment Skipped"

That's from the Indigo built-in email scanner, not from BetterEmail. If you want to use the BetterEmail triggers, you need to turn off the built-in scanner and configure a BetterEmail POP or IMAP device.

ghenne · Post by **ghenne** » Mon Jan 15, 2018 5:37 pm

FlyingDiver wrote:That's from the Indigo built-in email scanner, not from BetterEmail. If you want to use the BetterEmail triggers, you need to turn off the built-in scanner and configure a BetterEmail POP or IMAP device.

I have IMAP configured in Preferences in the Mail tab. Does BetterMail have its own configuration? Where?

(Is there documentation I should have found?)

FlyingDiver · Post by **FlyingDiver** » Mon Jan 15, 2018 5:40 pm

ghenne wrote: I have IMAP configured in Preferences in the Mail tab. Does BetterMail have its own configuration? Where?

(Is there documentation I should have found?)

Like I said, BetterEmail is totally independent of the Indigo built-in email system. BetterEmail uses Indigo devices to represent each server you want to use. If you want to handle mail on an IMAP server, you create a BetterEmail device of type "IMAP Server".

This thread, and the thread for the Indigo 6 version, are the best resource: http://forums.indigodomo.com/viewtopic. ... 11&t=14411

FlyingDiver · Post by **FlyingDiver** » Sat Mar 17, 2018 12:28 pm

Just released version 7.2.0, available from the Plugin Store or GitHub.

https://github.com/FlyingDiver/Indigo-B ... /tag/7.2.0

Added timeout code to restart IDLE connections
New MessageTo states in IMAP and POP devices
Removed GHPU entirely
Log messages updated

FlyingDiver · Post by **FlyingDiver** » Mon Oct 22, 2018 12:26 pm

Release 7.2.4 is now available.

Handle null flags (Gmail)

Allow message search for HTML-only emails (no plain text alternative).

Gangotti · Post by **Gangotti** » Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:48 pm

First, let me say this is a great plugin. I am wondering if there is a way to do a partial string match. I am using alarm.com currently and I have it sending notifications to Indigo. In Indigo I have the better email plugin triggering indigo with a string match in email event. The email is coming has a subject of " Vegas Home: The Kitchen Door was Opened at 11:02 am" With the time in the subject and the message body it makes it so the trigger will not work. Is there a way for the event to trigger if a section of the string is in the subject? I.e. "Vegas Home: The Kitchen Door was Opened at"

Thanks again and keep up the great work!

FlyingDiver · Post by **FlyingDiver** » Fri Dec 07, 2018 12:16 am

Gangotti wrote:First, let me say this is a great plugin. I am wondering if there is a way to do a partial string match. I am using alarm.com currently and I have it sending notifications to Indigo. In Indigo I have the better email plugin triggering indigo with a string match in email event. The email is coming has a subject of " Vegas Home: The Kitchen Door was Opened at 11:02 am" With the time in the subject and the message body it makes it so the trigger will not work. Is there a way for the event to trigger if a section of the string is in the subject? I.e. "Vegas Home: The Kitchen Door was Opened at"

Thanks again and keep up the great work!

Use the regex match for partial matches. Lots of examples for regex on the net.

pgershon · Post by **pgershon** » Thu Dec 13, 2018 7:38 am

I am just trying to set-up Better Email since my FIOS email on the regular client stopped working. Using MacMini running 10.13. When I install Better Email, I get errors in the log rapid-fire and need to deactivate. Any ideas?

Reloading plugin "Better Email 7.2.4"
Starting plugin "Better Email 7.2.4" (pid 85010)
Error receive socket select() 22 error
Error receive socket select() 22 error
Error receive socket select() 22 error

FlyingDiver · Post by **FlyingDiver** » Thu Dec 13, 2018 3:45 pm

pgershon wrote:I am just trying to set-up Better Email since my FIOS email on the regular client stopped working. Using MacMini running 10.13. When I install Better Email, I get errors in the log rapid-fire and need to deactivate. Any ideas?

Reloading plugin "Better Email 7.2.4"
Starting plugin "Better Email 7.2.4" (pid 85010)
Error receive socket select() 22 error
Error receive socket select() 22 error
Error receive socket select() 22 error

Is that before you created any devices? If not, what devices have you created? Show the device configuration.

joel.snyder · Post by **joel.snyder** » Thu Aug 08, 2019 1:02 pm

In the basic Indigo mail sender, an action shows up in the Action list as something like:

"send email to <destination address> subject <subject line>"

Whereas with Better Email, the Action shows up as

"Send email"

Although the default Indigo email system is prone to clogging, honestly the action item list is more useful because it gives you an idea of what you are doing without having to dive into each item.

Is there a way for the plugin to provide a "better" text line? (If you can point me at API docs or a general approach, I'd be happy to try a pull request and update it; I just have never done a Plugin with actions so I don't even know if this is possible...

Thanks for a great plugin!

Joel

FlyingDiver · Post by **FlyingDiver** » Thu Aug 08, 2019 1:20 pm

joel.snyder wrote: Is there a way for the plugin to provide a "better" text line? (If you can point me at API docs or a general approach, I'd be happy to try a pull request and update it; I just have never done a Plugin with actions so I don't even know if this is possible...

I honestly do not think it's possible. It's the difference between an action built into the Indigo server and a plugin. The server could pull some info from the action's pluginPrefs to show more detail there, but there's no API I've ever seen that would be used to do so.

I'd post in the Feature Request forum for an extension to the API to allow a plugin to supply a summary of an action for that UI.

DaveL17 · Post by **DaveL17** » Sun Nov 17, 2019 8:45 am

Hi Joe - is it possible to designate the email format as HTML when using the plugin scripting API? I can successfully create an HTML formatted email through a plugin action no problem, but it seems like the API is plain text only. If that's the case, I'm happy to put in a feature request on Git.

FlyingDiver · Post by **FlyingDiver** » Sun Nov 17, 2019 3:37 pm

Add “emailFormat”: “html” to the props in the script.

DaveL17 · Post by **DaveL17** » Sun Nov 17, 2019 4:21 pm

Works perfect. Thanks. Considering some Better Email hooks within some of my plugins which would allow users to have the option of using Indigo's built-in method or yours.

mgolden50 · Post by **mgolden50** » Wed Aug 05, 2020 1:09 pm

Hi Joe,

I'm having a problem getting B E to match an email subject with that same name in the settings. Heres the debug messages.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Mike

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 Better Email Debug              [email protected]: Polling IMAP Server
   Better Email Debug              [email protected]: Doing connect using encryptionType = SSL
   Better Email Debug              [email protected]: Doing login()
   Better Email Debug              [email protected]: Doing select()
   Better Email Debug              [email protected]: Doing checkMsgs
   Better Email Debug              [email protected]: checkMsgs - typ = OK, msg_ids = ['1 2 3']
   Better Email Debug              [email protected]: Message # 1 already seen, skipping...
   Better Email Debug              [email protected]: Message # 2 already seen, skipping...
   Better Email Debug              [email protected]: Fetching Message # 3
   Better Email Debug              [email protected]: Fetching Message # 3 Complete
   Better Email Debug              [email protected]: Received Message Subject: Vehicle Locked!
   Better Email Debug              [email protected]: Received Message From: MyUVO Notifications <[email protected]>
   Better Email Debug              [email protected]: Received Message To: [email protected]
   Better Email Debug              [email protected]: Received Message Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2020 11:50:19 -0700
   Better Email Debug              [email protected]: Received Message ID: <[email protected]>
   Better Email Debug              triggerCheck: Checking Triggers for Device [email protected] (963898916)
   Better Email Debug              	Checking Trigger Car Is Locked Email Received (1693525627), regexMatch
   Better Email Debug              		Checking Device State messageSubject for Pattern: Vehicle Locked!
Vehicle Locked!
Your vehicle is locked
   Better Email Debug              		No Match for Trigger Car Is Locked Email Received (1693525627)
   Better Email Debug              [email protected]: checkMsgs complete
   Better Email Debug              [email protected]: Logged out from IMAP server:

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