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New: Operate via e-mail

March 14th, 2007 by admin

We have finished the operating via e-mail feature, that will be very handy for all those brackberry / mobile email users out there.

Each user has an unique and easy-to-remember random email address showd up on the user preferences window. These address should be kept private, and it can be regenerated at any time if you think that someone does also know it. You can see it on the user preferences window, and you can also get a new one from there if you think that someone else knows your address.

Private email address

Making a request

You need to send a text-only (no html) e-mail to your private password specifying your username on the subject (this is for security reasons), and the request itself goes into the message body with the following format:

Insert transaction Get Balance Help request
     
insert balance help
project name (or “main”) project name (or “main”)
description    
amount    
date (dd/mm/yyyy or yyyy-mm-dd or “now”)    
tags (space separated)    

 

For example, in order to make a valid insert request we would send an email to our private address with our username as the subject and then we would entere the following text in the message body:

insert
main
Car repair: disc brake pads replacement
-587.23
now
car unexpected

Important: For security reasons we only reply at correct “get balance” requests. We don’t reply with any message neither if the operation has finished successfull or not.
Edit: We think that the private address - username pair is strong enough so anybody couldn’t guess it randomly, so now you’ll get an info reply just after your request had been processed.

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2 Responses

  1. Moneytrackin — учет расходов и доходов Says:

    […] Но, пожалуй, самое интересное - это управление своими финансами по электронной почте.Пользователю достаточно направить письмо по специально предоставленному для него адресу и указать в сообщении команды почтовому роботу. Подробнее о языке запросов можно узнать в корпоративном блоге. За состоянием своего “кошелька” можно наблюдать и на стартовой странице Netvibes - для этого потребуется установить специальный модуль. […]

  2. ROBERTO Says:

    hi
    I want to kow how this works

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