Show HN: HTML5 webcam pics to email with motion detection

Re:Show HN: HTML5 webcam pics to email with motion detection by blacksmith_tb on Monday January 22, 2018 @01:00PM (#16206397)

What if js could handle sending email via Mailgun, Sendgrid etc.? Then it could be self-hosted (though you may not want it to be, of course).

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Re:Show HN: HTML5 webcam pics to email with motion detection by pixeltwenty on Monday January 22, 2018 @02:01PM (#16206927)

Thanks for the ideas. One thing I have wrestled with in the past is how to prevent exposing the third party site email credentials (credentials the page would utilize for accessing Sendgrid, etc.) if the emailing code were hosted in the local and observable JavaScript. With the current server solution, at a minimum the browser and CORS enforcement take care of attempted cross domain access ... which is probably just slightly better than nothing at all.

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Re:Show HN: HTML5 webcam pics to email with motion detection by j_s on Monday January 22, 2018 @02:15PM (#16207040)

Let end users provide their own third party site email credentials.

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Re:Show HN: HTML5 webcam pics to email with motion detection by pixeltwenty on Monday January 22, 2018 @02:20PM (#16207073)

I like that idea. It could be an alternative, an additional option.

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Re:Show HN: HTML5 webcam pics to email with motion detection by randomString1 on Monday January 22, 2018 @06:22PM (#16209121)

You could use something that is not e-mail. From uploading the images to a shared/cloud folder and/or a messenging protocol to notify you.

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