Re:Show HN: Puput, listen to your email for free when travel...
by voltagex_ on Thursday January 07, 2016 @06:20AM
(#10857316)
I'd definitely use this if I could just forward specific emails to an address for them to be read out.
I'm pretty sure I've implemented this in Asterisk once, years ago, but Asterisk is a real pain.
Kudos for seeing it through.
Edit: Oh, right, I was assuming you asked for an oauth token to my mailbox, but forwarding makes more sense
Re:Show HN: Puput, listen to your email for free when travel...
by carlesfe on Thursday January 07, 2016 @06:22AM
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Yes, that's the basic use case actually.
We provide an email address, you create some filters, and any incoming message will be read to you.
Feel free to ask if you have more questions!
Re:Show HN: Puput, listen to your email for free when travel...
by voltagex_ on Thursday January 07, 2016 @06:26AM
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I'm not sure it will work in Australia. I'm pretty sure Telstra will charge for an international call from a cell, even if it's not "picked up"
Edit: works - now let's see if I'm charged
For regular users, probably your best bet is to filter emails which Gmail determines as "important" by itself. Or, at least, you can filter out for subject "Important", those of your significant other, etc.
We'll definitely think this through, thanks for your feedback!