Topic: Email Pics to Album from phone..

[rocklandusa]

I tried installing this program and can't get it going. I tried setting the permissions as 666, 755, 777 and nothing. Also could someone provide direct links to the three software programs that need to be installed for this to work? I searched the site that was provided earlier and cannot find the programs mentioned.

Thanks.,

[Mike Bobbitt]

Hi Rocklandusa,

Can you provide some details on what went wrong? Were there any errors? What steps did you take, and when did it appear to fail?

There really aren't any required add-ons, but the most common is ImageMagick.


Cheers
Mike

[pcarter]

Don't know if anyone's still using this thing...  But in case they are...  Sprint made a couple of changes to their email format, so I updated the code to fix that.  It also now reads the message from sprint, or the subject line from non-sprint..  I also changed it to not write tmp files, cause I was having problems with getting directories full of them..   

Not guaranteed to work, use at your own risk, etc..

You can download it from:
http://www.petecarter.net/CD/mail2pix.zip


Check out my newborn son's album at: http://www.benjamincarter.com

[Mike Bobbitt]

Thanks for the update, and congrats on Benjamin!

[nomad]

My server has GD installed, but do I have to have ImageMagick to run this "phone" script?
Thanks MUCH for any help
Nick

[davidguiza]

Hi, I'm fairly new around here and just happened to come accross this add-on for the fantastic album.pl (BTW thanks Mike, great script )

Anyway, this add-on seems like a very interesting new feature and I'd like to know if it's possible to make it create new folders or append the attached pictures to existing ones.
I'm guessing that it shouldn't be too difficult to use for example the subject line of the e-mail as a folder name. If the folder name already exists, it will append the pictures to that particular album. If it doesnt exist, it makes a new album out of the pics.

Could this be possible??

Thanks a bunch!

[davidguiza]

ohh... and I was just reading the readme file  from the add-on and it says I shoudl run it "either as a cron or using task scheduler".

A quick google search told me that "Cron is the name of program that enables unix users to execute commands or
scripts (groups of commands) automatically at a specified time/date". Since my server is running on a Windows environment, I'm guessing this means that I should be using the task scheduler.

So here goes my question: how do I make the script be run by the task scheduler? is this someting that my hosting company should do for me since I only get access to my folders on the server? or is there an FTP command or some other way to add this script into the task scheduler?

Thanks to anyone who can shed a light...