Send Email From Processing

Casey_Scalf

I am looking to send an Email from Processing. I am gathering data, and would like an easy way to send alerts when certain events happen.

It looks like this has been covered in the past but most of the resources have been deprecated. Shiffman had a pretty good one but that is not listed anymore: http://www.shiffman.net/2007/11/13/e-mail-processing/

Is this an easy thing to do? I figured it might be fairly useful and widespread.

Thank you for any tips or advice.

Casey_Scalf

I found one way to do this!

I made a AppleScript that used Mail to send an E-Mail. I then exported this as an application. Then I used launch() to launch this script.

I made sure to quit Mail at the end of the script.

Script Start: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/125822/applescript-automate-mail-tasks

AppleScript///////////////

set recipientName to "SomePerson"
set recipientAddress to "Some@Email.com"
set theSubject to "Type your subject here!"
set theContent to "Type your message content here!"

tell application "Mail"

    ##Create the message
    set theMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:theSubject, content:theContent, visible:true}

    ##Set a recipient
    tell theMessage
        make new to recipient with properties {name:recipientName, address:recipientAddress}

        ##Send the Message
        send

    end tell

    delay 5

    tell application "Mail"
        quit
    end tell

end tell

Launch Start: https://processing.org/reference/launch_.html

Processing////////////////

void setup() {
  size(200, 200);
}

void draw() { 
  // draw() must be present for mousePressed() to work
}

void mousePressed() {
  println("Sending Email");
  launch("/Users/HotelZ/Documents/SendTestEmail2.app");
}