Idea: E-mail-based document delivery

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How about adding an application that allows for something that's AFAIK possible 
with the Kindle: Have the nook receive documents via e-mail.

While we obviously lack the dedicated infrastructure, a rather simple yet 
potentially useful emulation might consist in having an application that can be 
configured to query an e-mail account (via, say, POP or IMAP), retrieve 
messages and put attachments in some document folder on the nook.  This way, 
people could set up a dedicated free e-mail account for their nook and use it 
to mail themselves documents.

Issues to be considered:

  - How to make polling for documents as transparent as possible?  Is it possible to do this automatically at set intervals if Wi-Fi happens to be turned on?  Or can it be integrated with the B&N etc. account polling already done, e.g., by nookLibrary?

  - Spam: How to best filter spam received by the e-mail account?  Again a simple yet effective way of filtering spam might consist in only dealing with e-mails sporting some user-defined keyword in their subjects.  This would of course require more thought on the user's part.

Opinions?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mgoetze2...@gmail.com on 31 Jul 2010 at 3:23

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We can setup a service which checks periodically when Wi-Fi is on. Plus check 
for a specific keyword in subject line and accepted formats in attachment.

Original comment by hari.swa...@gmail.com on 1 Aug 2010 at 12:16

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there is a script for this. look at issue 169 for the script.

Original comment by talis...@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2011 at 3:58